How to use mkntfs, I get "not a block device"

[O'Connor, Daniel]

> On 4 Feb 2015, at 09:03, O'Connor, Daniel <darius at dons.net.au> wrote:
>> On 3 Feb 2015, at 22:59, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I can't format a partition for NTFS with fusefs-ntfs port, using mkntfs.
>> 
>> Error message is
>> 
>> root at amelia:~ # mkntfs /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03                                      
>> /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 is not a block device.                                      
>> Refusing to make a filesystem here!    
> 
> The port should really patch this out (IMO) - it doesn't make sense on FreeBSD since it doesn't _have_ block devices.
> If you pass it the -F flag it should let your format the disk.

I filed https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197301 which fixes it.

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