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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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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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Clear the existing good drive and add it to the new zpool

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In recent posts: Doing a bit of stress work on a new HDD x8dtu: adding in the smaller drive Swapping zpools – moving from using main_tank to using data If you have a look over those posts, you’ll see why you never want to downsize a zpool. In this post: FreeBSD 14.2 removing the zfs labels from an drive which was part of a zpool which is no longer in use destroying the

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x8dtu: adding in the smaller drive

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I was up at 5:30 AM today. I packed the car and headed out. I arrived within the datacenter at about 8:15 or so. By 8:50, I was on IRC and the photos of the FreeBSD racks were uploading. Since I was going there anyway, I did some inventory and disposal work (a decommissioned server, about 25 old HDD, and various bits and pieces). I must say though, I’m not liking this option.

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Doing a bit of stress work on a new HDD

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As foreshadowed in x8dtu – drive problems, I will be visiting a data center soon to replace a 4TB HDD. The replacement HDD arrived last night. It was unceremoniously tossed onto the front porch by the courier. However, it was properly packaged. I’m sure it’s fine. The original idea: put this drive into a host, and write some data to it, to exercise it a bit. As you will soon learn, that is

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x8dtu – main ssds: how worn are they?

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Let’s look at these two SSDs (full smartctl output appears at the end). pool: zroot state: ONLINE status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable. action: Enable all features using ‘zpool upgrade’. Once this is done, the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support the features. See zpool-features(7) for details. scan: scrub repaired

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Adding in a stand-by spare drive for ZFS on FreeBSD

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This is a follow up to Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD from two months ago. The replacement for the returned drive has arrived and after sitting for many weeks on my coffee table, it is installed in r730-03. Here it is, as found in /var/log/messages – this host is a Dell R730 which has drive cages allowing me to insert the drive without powering off the host. Jun 30 16:17:15

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FreshPorts repos to be converted to subversion – a first draft

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FreshPorts is just over 25 years old. The original repository was cvs. Some of it was converted to subversion in October 2002. That same repo was converted to Git in September 15 Some FreshPorts repos are still on subversion – many are up on Github (19 of them at https://github.com/FreshPorts/) I thank Cosmin Stroe (Chicago) and Caleb L. Power for their efforts in this area. This has been an ongoing process. Latest work

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