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Subject: Re: comments on newfs raw disk ?  Safe ? (7 terabyte array)
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Indigo wrote:
> Hi,
> does that mean that slicing and partitioning additional drives has no
> advantages on a purely FreeBSD machine?

No, except organizational - you might want to use different file systems
or different file system parameters on each partition/slice, you might
want to distribute data so that if one file system gets full (for
example, with logs) the others are not affected, etc. There was a pretty
long  list of organizational benefits of partitioning on the questions-
mailing list recently.

But from a system point of view, no - partitioning is not required.