This is the Dell R7425 host known as r7425-01. At idle, despite holding 12 x 12TB HDD, this chassis is pulling about 300-350 watts. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list dmesg sesutil show [22:28 r7425-01 dvl ~] % sudo sesutil show ses0: ; ID: 500056b345a433ff Desc Dev Model Ident Size/Status Drive Slot 0 da0 ATA HGST HUH721212AL 8CGSV9DG Unknown Drive Slot 1 da1 ATA HGST HUH721212AL 8CGSXG6G Unknown Drive Slot 2 da2 […]
This post has been replaced by a newer post. This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-01. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. This host has undergone major storage changes over the past few weeks. This post will reflect those changes This is my primary developer server in my basement. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list dmesg sesutil show [18:41 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo sesutil
This is the Microsoft Azure instance known as nagios03. Today it was migrated to a new VM size ( Standard B2s v2 (2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory). For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg
This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-01. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. This host has undergone major storage changes over the past few weeks. This post will reflect those changes This is my primary developer server in my basement. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list dmesg sesutil show [16:57 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo sesutil show ses0: ; ID: 3061686369656d30 Desc Dev Model Ident
Today I wanted to test some stuff with the newly obtained SATADOM SSDs. I was surprised to find they still had data on them. dvl@r730-04:~ $ gpart show ada1 => 63 242255601 ada1 MBR (116G) 63 1985 – free – (993K) 2048 495616 1 linux-data [active] (242M) 497664 193816576 2 linux-data (92G) 194314240 47939584 3 linux-data (23G) 242253824 1840 – free – (920K) Well, one of them at least. Let’s have a snoop.
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Finally, it’s time to put together a new zpool for r730-01 (the storage information at that URL is already out of date; once this new zpool is created, another post will replace it). In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 I just realized, that my previous post on the zpools for this host revealed there is already a zpool with 2x 4TB NVMe: data02: [20:17 r730-01 dvl ~] % zpool list data02 NAME SIZE ALLOC
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This post documents the drive locations for zpools within r730-01. It will be replaced from time to time with a new post. To the left of a device is an indication of the drive physical location. Unused devices Unused drives/slots: Slots 12 & 13 each contain a 4TB SSD. Slots 14 and 15 are empty. Those drive cages are on the workbench and each hold a 2TB SSD. There are also NVMe devices
I’m writing this up to have a starting point for when I come back to arrange the free space into zpools. This post might be the end-result of a request for donations for disk space etc that went out on 2025-08-29 – I was running short of space. Since then, donations (both cash and hardware) have helped me figure out that problem. After moving the zroot zpool onto a pair of SATADOM SSDs,
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In this post, I’m moving my zroot zpool from larger devices to smaller devices. Why? Well, the smaller devices happen to attach directly to the main board of my server, albeit with some slight modification to a fan cowl. There have been several recent posts regarding this topic. I tried a different zpool approach, where I added new devices to the zpool and removed the old devices. That worked. It wasn’t ideal for
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These are some notes I want to keep handy. They will help me switch back and forth between UEFI and BIOS booting. In this post: FreeBSD 14.1 Dell R730 To move from BIOS boot to UEFI boot System BIOS | Boot Settings: Boot Mode = UEFI System BIOS | System Settings | Device Settings | PERC: Select Boot Device = None Then you have to wait for it to boot, query devices, the
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