Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
Hi, correct me if I am wrong, but is it true that ntfsprogs is the only port that comes with formating disk into NTFS system? because days ago I also had this problem with my friend's extra USB 1T HD, I had to use my windows laptop to do the job. thanks!! TFC On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an extremely long time, 24hrs. Yes, sorry, I totally failed to make my point, since I scrapped that line and forgot about it writing the mail. (The important part was in the parenthesis you removed.) My point is that I had problems with ntfsresize from ntfsprogs-2.0.0 not working, while ntfsresize from ntfsprogs-1.13.1 was doing just fine. (I hit that twice -- on different computers.) Thus, I would suggest to try mkntfs from ntfsprogs-1.13.1, if mkntfs from ntfsprogs-2.0.0 fails. If the older mkntfs works, it would be another reason to revive the old port. ntfsprogs-2.0.0 was criticized, for example in the thread ending with this posting: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-May/msg02306.html A developer from ntfs-3g that formerly worked on ntfsprogs recommends to use the older version: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#ntfsprogs I do not really know who is right, but ntfs-3g is actively developed while ntfsprogs is not, other people seem to trust ntfs-3g more than the newer version of ntfsprogs, and the arguments of the ntfs-3g developer sound reasonable. I wrote about it last year (before I actually hit problems): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-August/050157.html The reply was that there are no new problems known with the 2.0.0 version: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-August/050406.html I would like to have ntfsprogs-1.13.1 back -- as ports/ntfsprogs1 or by reverting ports/ntfsprogs. Thus, Yuri, please try and report back. Cheers, Jan Henrik Hah, sorry for the vicious reply from me. Don't take it personally, I just snapped this time at reading what looked like a dupe I promise I'll lay off the coffee for a bit. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
2009/4/13 Tsu-Fan Cheng tfch...@gmail.com: Hi, correct me if I am wrong, but is it true that ntfsprogs is the only port that comes with formating disk into NTFS system? because days ago I also had this problem with my friend's extra USB 1T HD, I had to use my windows laptop to do the job. thanks!! TFC NTFS is one of the 'crown jewels' at Microsoft, who consider the idea of sharing ideas despicable. The only way to get information about it is to reverse-engineer the format, which is such a bugger that not many people are interested enough in doing. Ntfsprogs is the only tool (AFAIK) that can do that. Read Jan's part though http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1743061+0+archive/2009/freebsd-questions/20090412.freebsd-questions Sorry, Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an extremely long time, 24hrs. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an extremely long time, 24hrs. Yes, sorry, I totally failed to make my point, since I scrapped that line and forgot about it writing the mail. (The important part was in the parenthesis you removed.) My point is that I had problems with ntfsresize from ntfsprogs-2.0.0 not working, while ntfsresize from ntfsprogs-1.13.1 was doing just fine. (I hit that twice -- on different computers.) Thus, I would suggest to try mkntfs from ntfsprogs-1.13.1, if mkntfs from ntfsprogs-2.0.0 fails. If the older mkntfs works, it would be another reason to revive the old port. ntfsprogs-2.0.0 was criticized, for example in the thread ending with this posting: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-May/msg02306.html A developer from ntfs-3g that formerly worked on ntfsprogs recommends to use the older version: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#ntfsprogs I do not really know who is right, but ntfs-3g is actively developed while ntfsprogs is not, other people seem to trust ntfs-3g more than the newer version of ntfsprogs, and the arguments of the ntfs-3g developer sound reasonable. I wrote about it last year (before I actually hit problems): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-August/050157.html The reply was that there are no new problems known with the 2.0.0 version: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-August/050406.html I would like to have ntfsprogs-1.13.1 back -- as ports/ntfsprogs1 or by reverting ports/ntfsprogs. Thus, Yuri, please try and report back. Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an extremely long time, 24hrs. Yes, sorry, I totally failed to make my point, since I scrapped that line and forgot about it writing the mail. (The important part was in the parenthesis you removed.) My point is that I had problems with ntfsresize from ntfsprogs-2.0.0 not working, while ntfsresize from ntfsprogs-1.13.1 was doing just fine. (I hit that twice -- on different computers.) Thus, I would suggest to try mkntfs from ntfsprogs-1.13.1, if mkntfs from ntfsprogs-2.0.0 fails. If the older mkntfs works, it would be another reason to revive the old port. ntfsprogs-2.0.0 was criticized, for example in the thread ending with this posting: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-May/msg02306.html A developer from ntfs-3g that formerly worked on ntfsprogs recommends to use the older version: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#ntfsprogs I do not really know who is right, but ntfs-3g is actively developed while ntfsprogs is not, other people seem to trust ntfs-3g more than the newer version of ntfsprogs, and the arguments of the ntfs-3g developer sound reasonable. I wrote about it last year (before I actually hit problems): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-August/050157.html The reply was that there are no new problems known with the 2.0.0 version: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-August/050406.html I would like to have ntfsprogs-1.13.1 back -- as ports/ntfsprogs1 or by reverting ports/ntfsprogs. Thus, Yuri, please try and report back. Cheers, Jan Henrik Hah, sorry for the vicious reply from me. Don't take it personally, I just snapped this time at reading what looked like a dupe I promise I'll lay off the coffee for a bit. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things on it under Windows. I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an extremely long time, 24hrs. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things on it under Windows. i would rather make FAT32 partition newfs_msdos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i would rather make FAT32 partition Unfortunately FAT32 has a file size limit 2^32-1 bytes (~4GB) And I talk about HD 1TB and files might me larger. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:33:13 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Unfortunately FAT32 has a file size limit 2^32-1 bytes (~4GB) And I talk about HD 1TB and files might me larger. The easiest way would be to format it inside a Windows PC that is NTFS capable. But I think your problem is that you don't have such a PC at hand... Maybe a (very overcomplicated) solution is to (install and then) run some kind of Windows in a VM and format the disk from there... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. (I did use mkntfs successfully with the 1.13.1 version, but never tried with 2.0.0. ntfsresize from 2.0.0 failed for me when 1.13.1 did work.) Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
Hi, The easiest way would be to format it inside a Windows PC that is NTFS capable. But I think your problem is that you don't have such a PC at hand... Maybe a (very overcomplicated) solution is to (install and then) run some kind of Windows in a VM and format the disk from there... I am not sure that my reply is allowed here, but I recently found out that Hiren BooCD 9.8 includes a live version of XP... Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
