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Ivan Voras wrote:
> 2009/3/25 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>:
>
>   
>> Is there any reason not to skip labeling/partitioning and use da1 directly?
>>  Just newfs it and mount it.  I've done this with a couple large Areca
>> arrays with no ill effect so far.
>>     
>
> Nope, no practical reason. Skip the partitioning if you don't need it.
>
>   
Finally: # newfs /dev/da1

a# df -H
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
.....
/dev/da1       3.4T    4.1k    3.1T     0%    /data
.....

Mission accomplished. But why sysinstall plays such an ugly game? This 
problem should be announced as a bug.