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Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
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>=20
> If your array is just going to used for one large filesystem, you can
> skip any partitioning steps and newfs the base device directly.  then
> if you decide to grow the array (and if your controller supports
> nondestructive resizing), you can use growfs to expand the filesystem
> without the extra step of manually adjusting a partition table.
>=20

So you don't actually need to disklabel it?
You can just go newfs {options} /dev/da0 and it will just work?=20

Hmm.. wish I had something to test that with because I thought I had
to disklabel first and then newfs it.

Ben.