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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:21:01 +0300
From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Using /dev/adX instead of adXc or adXe
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What's wrong with "newfs /dev/ad1" "mount /dev/ad1 /mnt"
and using it? The disk will never be used as bootable, and
will never be installed in a non-bsd computer. It's just there
for storage.

So is there a caveat?