September 2025

Dell R730 – The session has timed out waiting for verification of the certificate – slot bifurcation details – plus NVMe plans

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Today I was trying to access my Dell 730 (r730-01) via the remote console. I failed. Twice. First and expected failure First, this was usual and expected. It’s been a problem both at home and at work. It is the inability to access the console via https using the hostname This is what I see: I can get in via IP address though. Second and new-to-me failure Next, after logging in via IP […]

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Finding out more about nvme on FreeBSD

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Recently I’ve been playing with NVMe to find out more about monitoring for wear. Tried nvme-cli: [17:49 r730-01 dvl ~] % nvme list Failed to scan topology: No such file or directory Seems it is a known problem. Went with this instead: [17:52 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo nvmecontrol devlist nvme0: Samsung SSD 980 PRO with Heatsink 1TB nvme0ns1 (953869MB) nvme1: Samsung SSD 980 PRO with Heatsink 1TB nvme1ns1 (953869MB) With more information

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Mounting and unmounting zfs filesystems within a #FreeBSD jail

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I have a jail on r730-01 called dvl-ingress01. Here are some filesystems related to that jail: [11:50 r730-01 dvl ~] % zfs list | grep dvl-ingress01 | grep repos NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT data02/freshports/dvl-ingress01/ingress/repos 8.65G 1011G 112K /jails/dvl-ingress01/var/db/ingress/repos data02/freshports/dvl-ingress01/ingress/repos/doc 706M 1011G 678M /jails/dvl-ingress01/var/db/ingress/repos/doc data02/freshports/dvl-ingress01/ingress/repos/ports 3.53G 1011G 2.30G /jails/dvl-ingress01/var/db/ingress/repos/ports data02/freshports/dvl-ingress01/ingress/repos/src 4.44G 1011G 2.73G /jails/dvl-ingress01/var/db/ingress/repos/src data02/freshports/dvl-ingress01/repos 120K 1011G 120K /jails/dvl-ingress01/var/db/ingress/repos That is not a complete list, but it illustrates the filesystems I’m working with

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Updating a FreeBSD 14.2 host to FreeBSD 14.3 via freebsd-update

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I’m ready to update r730-01 (I see that link is from 2024 – I’ll refresh it after this update) from FreeBSD 14.2 to FreeBSD 14.3. First, some clean up: [21:04 r730-01 dvl ~] % bectl list BE Active Mountpoint Space Created 14.2-RELEASE-p4_2025-08-08_112039 – – 342M 2025-08-08 11:20 default NR / 11.6G 2024-06-19 16:38 testing – – 74.0M 2025-08-09 10:59 [21:04 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo bectl destroy 14.2-RELEASE-p4_2025-08-08_112039 [21:04 r730-01 dvl ~] %

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