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Hello. I'm using GELI on my laptop for whole disk encryption. Boot partition is located on separate thumb-drive. My loader.conf contains such strings for decryption: The questions are: 1. Is it possible to move this keys to another thumb drive in such a way that loader could find them while...

I have a SATA 2.5" SSD connected to the onboard SATA connectors with ZFS-on-root FreeBSD installed. There are 9 hard disks connected: 8 via an LSI PCI-E card and one connected via SATA to the onboard SATA connector. For some reason FreeBSD boots off of the SSD but when setting up the disks it...

Hi All, Trying to mount the old 1TB (but working disk) on new server, and get it to appear every time on boot up (and be visible in Windows via Samba). This is what "gpart show da0" shows: => 63 1953525105 da0 MBR (932G) 63 1953525105 1 freebsd [active] (932g)...

I am experiencing generally slow system on my arm64 (rk3399) box - slow opening of new tmux pane, slow opening new zsh instance, slow startup of vim, slow opening files in vim. All config files are the same as on my 10 years old amd64 laptop which works as expected. Same arm64 hardware with...

Installed fusefs-ntfs my loader.conf fuse_load="YES" my sysctl.conf: vfs.usermount=1 and fstab: /dev/ada2s1 /mnt/windows ntfs mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g,rw 0 0 Everthing its ok! but, when I click (for open) on the disk, Nautilus show me a long, long, long name (And the...

Hello, Hard drive de-attached/re-attached randomly. No performance issues while attached detected. Log below. This is one of the disks in the ZFS Mirror, the first disk has no issues. No power lost/issues.... Jul 23 11:57:50 BSD01 kernel: ada1 at ahcich2 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 Jul 23...

Just wondering if it has been considered to not auto select dos for the disk if the disk is detected to be over 2TB? GPT works but it'd be nice to have it just work automatically?

I have the following sutuation in my PC and I would like to extend the size of the FreeBSD partition -partition number 13. The problem is that the extension cannot be continuous unless I delete the var partition (4GB) and recreate it later after the extension and by taking backup. Swap partition...

The problem is this. As you know, the essence of TRIM is to clean up blocks that are no longer needed by the file system in the background, or with minimal impact on performance. On my own system, the picture is as follows. We create a file of 2 GB in size, delete it, and the disk spends all its...

This is a public "note to self" that I hope will be useful to somebody out there. This evening I wanted to install FreeBSD in a VM under KVM on a Linux VM-host. Also, when I install FreeBSD with ZFS (Read: Always), I like to partition and setup the disks by hand via the "Shell" option in the...

Hi, I have this output in Linux using iostat: I want to get r_await and w_await in FreeBSD, which definitions are: r_await: The average time (in milliseconds) for read requests issued to the device to be served. This includes the time spent by the requests in queue and the time spent...

This, from a different discussion, reminded me that I wanted to ask a question ages ago, but never got around to asking. A long time ago I did a basic UNIX course, on System V I think it was, and the instructor said "do a sync before you shutdown, this will ensure disk cache is written out"...

I have recently started working with bhyve setting up virtual servers in my office. So far it works great. Now that it I see how well it works I am regretting not making my file server larger. Is there any way I can just "append" the VM disk file and make it bigger without having to build...

Hi, It is a new install on an old IBM tower server. I have played with 10.x 32 and 64 bit on it before but this is 64bit 11.1. I think there is an issue with a hard disk but it seems inconsistent. The server is an IBM 84852AU 206m. The boot drive is a SATA 64GB ssd taken from and HP proliant...

Hi, I have an issue with Seagate ST10000NM0016 drives sporadically refusing to work. 8 of them are attached to a 9207-8i controller and assembled in a RAIDZ2. At unpredictable intervals, drives throw errors like (da6:mps2:0:45:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE(10). CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00...

I'd like to reduce disk size to 10G on bhyve VM. Is it possible to do it on "live" system and keep untouched data? Eventually on single user boot. => 34 83886013 vtbd0 GPT (40G) 34 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1058 83884958 2 freebsd-ufs (40G)...

Woke up this morning to a mostly non-responsive server and a console filled up with messages like this (messages log for just the last 8 hours is 126M): Mar 8 07:36:17 xeon kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1 (init) Mar 8 07:36:17 xeon kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed...

I am using Freebsd 11 installation for several months and have some issues with some applications usage for example firefox, thunderbird or qtcreator can hang and not respond for any action for ~10s. I wanted to investigate this issue but my knowledge in BSD has ended and I need help. I checked...

I am an average Linux user used to Debian Linux and I am not system admin or anything like that, just home user and from yesterday I am new to FreeBSD. Yesterday I installed FREEBSD from USB and my disk is 400 GB but it shows 383 GB. Only I don't know why and only this is my operating system on...

I am unpacking a large tar file. top -m io shows that bsdtar uses 100.00% (not sure of what, probably disk io). Is it possible to "throttle" the disk usage when starting the tar command in a similar way that nice -n 20 would "throttle" the amount of CPU the process takes (alters the scheduling...