January 2024

Clearing-out multiple drives concurrently – while Watching Fargo Season 5

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It is time to let the knew server go. It has gone through multiple upgrades, new drives, new boards, and new chassis. It has been replaced by r730-03. Before I let it go, I want to clear off the drives. By that I mean: I did this by booting the host using mfBSD (a lovely USB-bootable version of FreeBSD). I then ssh‘d in as root (one of the few situations when ssh as […]

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Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS (latest)

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This is a rewrite of a previous post on the same subject. I have rewritten it because I created a new jail ™ and I’m using a different configuration now. I recently moved a Time Capsule instance from a FreeBSD host into a jail. Later, I moved to using Samba instead of AFP. Why? Samba seems to be the preferred solution because AFP has been deprecated. It still works, but let’s go Samba.

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