Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device?

2009-04-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
And got the message: /dev/da0 is not a block device. Refusing to make a filesystem here! Just a wild guess, but shouldn't you create slices first? Then create the filesystem on /dev/da0s1 Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device?

2009-04-08 Thread Yuri
Olivier Nicole wrote: Just a wild guess, but shouldn't you create slices first? Then create the filesystem on /dev/da0s1 Bests, Olivier This as a must in the past. But now I always format, for example flash disks, without slices. And both Windows and FreeBSD have no problem. And I

Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device?

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:50:41PM -0700, Yuri wrote: I got USB enclosure and put HD there. I tried to create NTFS on it (using mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs). And got the message: /dev/da0 is not a block device. Refusing to make a filesystem here! mkntfs does 'stat' on /dev/da0. Why