Here’s a guide for myself on how to format and mount an NTFS partition on FreeBSD. These examples were run on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. List disks: # geom disk list ... Geom name: da1 Providers: 1. Name: da1 Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r0w0e0 descr: HGST TOURO S lunid: 5000000000000001 ident: 21001410170002100173 rotationrate: unknown fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255