August 2025

Running short on space on the FreshPorts development zpool

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It’s been some time since I asked for public donations for hardware. In this case, I’m asking for donations to buy two more storage devices to expand this zpool: [18:08 r730-01 dvl ~] % zpool list data02 NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT data02 1.73T 1.39T 351G – – 66% 80% 1.00x ONLINE – Most of the space is used for FreshPorts, however it is not for the […]

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Connecting to Time Capsule provided via Samba (on ZFS)

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I use Mac laptops. Have for years. I make use of their Time Machine backups. I configured Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS (latest) and today I added a new user to that configuration. Next, I wanted to start the backups. I didn’t find details in my blog, so that prompted this post. In this post: This post assumes you’re already configured the server (see above links). FreeBSD 14.2 samba 4.16.11

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Can’t get to some Disney links

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This is mostly for my future reference, for when this happens the next time. I hope it saves me 10-15 minutes of pondering. I noticed this problem a few days ago. I was clicking on links in an email from Disney. The hostname didn’t resolve. I passed it off as: well, they got problems… It happened again today. Hold on, this isn’t likely. I tried the link again, from my phone, with wifi

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Using a sparse git checkout to build vuxml files

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This post shows how I used a git spare checkout to build vuxml files without having the whole ports tree present. In this post: FreeBSD 14.2 FreeBSD 14.3-STABLE git-2.50.1 git-tiny-2.50.1 This came about when recent commits to security/vuxml weren’t showing up on in my host, despite doing pkg audit -F – this was several hours after the commit. trouble told me to check this jail on that host. Eventually I figured out the

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