tim lupfer writes:

># fdisk wd1
>fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
>
>is this anything that I should be concerned about?

fdisk manages dos mbr partition tables, you don't need any, especially
not if you don't want to boot from it.
since you said you labeled the disk before running fdisk, then the
disklabel is at sector 0 and there's simply no dos/bios-style mbr
there, which is the canonical way to set up a non-boot disk.
looks all perfect to me from your description (if you can properly
create and mount filesystems.)

--mkb