Dan Langille's Other Diary
Upgrading a jail by replacing it
I broke my FreeBSD MySQL jail; got it working again by using a snapshot
Poudriere symlinks for repos
FreeBSD 15.0 – after upgrade, installing my own packages
Upgrading a FreeBSD 14.3 host to FreeBSD 15.0
Updating my poudriere jail after updating the host to FreeBSD 15.0
Migrating a MySQL 8.0 jail to a new MySQL 8.4 jail – 2nd attempt
ERROR 1524 (HY000): Plugin ‘mysql_native_password’ is not loaded
Migrating a MySQL 8.0 jail to a new MySQL 8.4 jail
Migrating my hosts from Python 3.11 to Python 3.12
bash: line 1: /usr/local/sbin/rrsync: No such file or directory
Nagios03
Lime wash – over field stone walls already covered in latex and/or lead-base paint
Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back
r730-01
data04: moving data01/bacula/volumes over
creating a raidz2 from 8x 4TB devices – here. we. go.
Making room to creating a raidz2 from 8x 4TB devices – here. we. go.
Adding gmirror swap to FreeBSD 14.3 – r730-01
The latest SATADOM drives contained data when I got them
Creating a new zpool for r730-01
Another pair of SATADOM devices
r730-01 zpools
Consolidating the disk space in r730-01
prod – moving to a SATADOM based zpool (zroot) using zfs snapshot and send | recv
Switching between BIOS and UEFI (and vice versa) on a Dell R730
Test run – moving to a SATADOM based zpool (zroot) using zfs snapshot and send | recv
Test run – moving to a smaller zpool (zroot) using zfs snapshot and send | recv
Doing stupid things with zpools
Moving a zpool to smaller drives with UEFI #ZFS #FreeBSD
Moving a zpool to smaller drives #ZFS #FreeBSD
Let’s try shrinking a whole-disk zpool
Moving a zpool to smaller drives #ZFS #FreeBSD – fails
Creating a backup boot drive from a zroot mirror
gpart backup | gpart restore does not alway give you exact replication
SATADOM smartctl details SATADOM-ML 3MG2-P
Moving a zpool from larger drives #ZFS #FreeBSD
Duplicating partitions to a larger drive #ZFS #FreeBSD
Using SATADOM drives in a Dell R730
PostgreSQL: MD5 password support is deprecated – updating the user passwords
r730-01: storage plan
What will I do with those 2 x 1TB drives?
zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs
Moving a zpool to new devices – after the syncoid copy – oh wait, zfs replace
Creating the new zpools
ETCDIR for sysutils/mqttwarn is not as expected
Compression results
GEOM: nda1: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid
Experimenting with compression=zstd
Experimenting with compression=lz4
Experimenting with compression off
Adding in new NVMe cards and sticks – and replacing two SSDs
Leveling out the NVMe cards on the adaptors
r730-01: the drive replacement plan
Cannot override /etc/newsyslog.conf with /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/newsyslog.conf
Dell R730 – The session has timed out waiting for verification of the certificate – slot bifurcation details – plus NVMe plans
Finding out more about nvme on FreeBSD
Mounting and unmounting zfs filesystems within a #FreeBSD jail
Updating a FreeBSD 14.2 host to FreeBSD 14.3 via freebsd-update
Running short on space on the FreshPorts development zpool
Connecting to Time Capsule provided via Samba (on ZFS)