On 3/13/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?

I've heard of it being done accidently with no ill effects,
and I've done it under qemu with no ill effects.  It makes
me feel better to have some abstraction WRT disks, I've
tended to use glabel(8) for handling this.

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