Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:30:40 -0700 From: Benson Wong <tummytech@gmail.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions Message-ID: <860807bf05041513307e93f72@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050415171435.GP4842@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050415161806.GO4842@dan.emsphone.com> <20050415165334.DE2BD37C00@mxc1.crockettint.com> <20050415171435.GP4842@dan.emsphone.com>
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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.
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