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Subject: Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?
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Dan Rue wrote:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-April/084557.html
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> Though, I didn't find the dd and disklabel steps necessary.

It appears that the dd step is necessary to clean out any cruft left over from previous attempts. In my case it erased the gpt stuff.