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    ZFS Update: HDD went offline while resilvering is in progress || Is this a valid & up2date guide for replacing existing disks with larger disks?

    Unfortunately, there are often restrictions that make things less convenient. As long as you are careful about determining which disk is which and only try to replace one at a time, you should be fine. Just make sure that you've got backups and make it's a good idea to label the device and the...
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    Solved ZFS Pool got corrupted, kernel panic after import

    When you put it like that, it reminds me of a similar problem that I had ages ago where I was trying to import a pool that hadn't been offlined and the computer kept panicing. IIRC, what I wound up doing was having it ignore the previous cache and when the pool loaded, sent it to a new pool. It...
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    ZFS How do I make sure usb external disks added without raid to zpool are properly seen by the system?

    gpt labels are preferable to geom labels. gpt labels are a part of the partition and won't change unless you modify them, but geom labels are separate from the partion. As such, you should be able to take a zpool from one computer and move it to another without the drives getting out of order...
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    Solved Planning ZFS encrypted swap and clearing it later

    This doesn't make any sense. Swap should be on an empty partition, not one with a filesystem. This is especially true with a copy on write filesystem like ZFS where it's going to put a ton of stress on the underlying disk. Trying to change the size of swap partitions is rather tricky and...
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    ZFS Update: HDD went offline while resilvering is in progress || Is this a valid & up2date guide for replacing existing disks with larger disks?

    I don't believe so. This is just going to be a painstaking process and you want to be very careful to make sure you know which drives are which. If you didn't do it previously, it's a good idea to label them as they go in. Now, if you had enough ports to mirror the operation, that would be...
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    Solved ZFS Pool got corrupted, kernel panic after import

    After ensuring that you've got a back up, probably the next thing to try would be something along the lines of zpool import -Fn , that should tell you if discarding the last few transactions will make it openable. Obviously, any data represented by those transaction would be permanently lost...
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    How to do a full system backup of freebsd so i can boot from it if my current system fails

    That's more or less what I'd personally do. Except that I'd have the spare drive connected most of the time via eSATA and just disconnect it when there's lightning in the forecast. This would require 3 disks to maintain the mirroring. I don't typically run ZFS without it. Obviously, I'm assuming...
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    Solved What does the "dd if=/dev/ada0 of=/dev/ada0“ mean?

    I'm curious what the results are here. I probably wouldn't use dd for this, I'd probably use ddrescue or similar. But, that being said, this is a foolish thing to do. If you have any reason to believe that a HDD isn't behaving correctly, you should be immediately verifying that any backups you...
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    Other Backup Windows clients to FreeBSD server

    This is good advice, but it's likely worth having a hot spare drive as well. 1Tb disks are fairly cheap these days, and if something breaks at an inconvenient time, it doesn't take much time before you've wasted far more money than that. Even if it doesn't break at an inconvenient time, there's...
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    ZFS Weird and slow ZFS resilver

    That is kind of odd. Why do those drives have 512b sectors rather than 4k? It seems odd to me that you're using 512b sector size on just those disks. I use that same model of HDD and I've always used the 4k sector size that matches the native sector size. If you're using smaller sector sizes...
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    What to backup?

    That's more or less the bare minimum. It's also a good idea to have a list of all the ports that you've installed and any packages that you've compiled to get the restore done quickly. Make sure to backup your encryption keys if you're using an encrypted filesystem, those tend to be in /boot...
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    VirtualBox

    Skimming through it, I don't see anything out of date about it.
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    firefox quantum on FreeBSD?

    I personally find umatrix to be a lot more useful than NoScript for most things. It's much more flexible and I don't have the same issues I had with NoScript having to go through and enable things that reveal other things.
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    Howto: Transfer files between FreeBSD and Android devices

    That's a good option, you can also use www/owncloud and do the same thing. Either way is probably quite a bit more efficient than anything other than a direct USB connection. But, either way is nice because you can easily sync between more than just two places, so it makes backups a bit more...
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    VirtualBox

    It works very well on my system. I forget when I put my current system together, but it's years old at this point. Just make sure you've got plenty of RAM and give it a processor core or two. At this point having enough RAM to give to the VM and have available to the system is probably a bigger...
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    Cinnamon can't find themes after install

    Interesting, I'll have to give that a try while things sort themselves out. I wish I had more information about specifically what it is about gnome 2 that's causing the problem right now.
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    Cinnamon can't find themes after install

    It's probably not coming from Cinnamon, I'm having the same problem right now with xfce4. xfce4 also uses gnome 2, so that's probably where I'm going to be looking for the problem. Are you also having windows randomly crashing or are the icons just missing?
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    How to use ports-mgmt/synth

    I personally split my list of ports up into a couple sections so that I'm not stuck waiting for all of them to finish before I can use them. I have a list of just my base most important ports another for the ones I always install and a third for the ones that I'm testing out. You can split them...
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    Dovecot: Undefined symbol "fdatasync"

    I'll give that a shot, but I started with a completely new jail and it failed anyways, so I'm at a loss as to why doing this would give me a different result. EDIT: Definitely didn't change anything. sqlite3 still had to be reinstalled manually after the fact to get the error to go away. Not...
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    Portupgrade claims support has ended.

    As far as I can tell the make system is just ignoring the test to decide whether or not to display that message. I see if [ "${INDEX_QUIET}" = "" ]; is supposed to be the determiner of whether or not to display the message, but even if I manually set it to a value in the test, I get the same...
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