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

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Wed Apr 8 20:50:43 PDT 2009


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 /dev/da0 stats not as a block device?

Yuri



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