How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Fri Apr 10 19:38:51 UTC 2009


On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:33:13 -0700, Yuri <yuri at 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...



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