gpart create -s gpt adaX
gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l mydisklabel adaX
newfs /dev/gpt/mydisklabel
gpart
, so I was expecting to use it. I would just plow ahead using, e.g., your example, but I seem to remember there was some trickiness involved. Unfortunately, at my age I'm lucky to be able to remember my cat's name, so "trickiness" is all I can remember about his explanation (well, that and that it involved gpart
).