filesystem

So in the last maybe 24 hours I've had quite the show with freebsd. I've maybe installed freebsd on my laptop about 8 times now in the last day. The first 3 times were me trying to figure out why a wayland window manager Hyprland caused a whole kernel panic everytime it was ran, but thats beside...

Is there anything like Spotlight (on Mac) available on FreeBSD? (I found https://www.cerebroapp.com/ but it is for Linux)

Hi, I am new to buildroot and embedded linux, I have once build the root on my laptop using the buildroot and it took like 20 to 30 minutes, I want to know what kernel is used in the buildroot and how can I change it e.g. if I want to use the kernel of the freebsd in buildroot, would that be...

The long-in-development Bcachefs file-system driver was submitted for Linux 6.5 but never merged this cycle due to various technical issues and developer in-fighting. Linus Torvalds himself has now gotten around to reviewing the proposed code and chiming in on the situation. Linus Torvalds...

Hello, I would like to use autofs to mount removable disk. I followed the HandBook Automounting Removable media section. However, this mount a device /dev/ada1p1 which seems to be an efi partition : $ ls /media/ada1p1/ efi and $ /etc/autofs/special_media ada1p1 -fstype=msdosfs,nosuid,async...

My FreeBSD partitions are like this : pc154:user 12] df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/gpt/rootfs 2.0G 1.7G 144M 92% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/gpt/efi 1.0G 64K 1.0G 0% /efi...

Hello, i am testing ZFS mirror installation in a server, but when i get the mirror degraded the disk information reported by zpool status seems incorrect. Its a fresh installation of: 13.0-RELEASE The partition layout generated by the installer for both disks, ada0 and ada1 are: root@odissey:~...

Hello FreeBSD community. Finally! ) I'm sorry for my English, I have not much practice. First of all, what I have: laptop with RTX2060, i7, nvme, uefi. What I know in linux: debian -> slackware -> arch. We scared by videos on YouTube about FreeBSD. They say there are many really simple...

I need to use a USB flash disk to move files to/from macOS to FreeBSD. What is the best or recommended common filesystem between the two operating systems? Should I first format the USD disk using macOS Disk Utility? What filesystem (APFS, FAT, exFAT, etc. should I choose)? Or, should I format...

I set up a couple of jails and ports trees with iocage and pot and poudriere, which all use zfs. I'm done using these jails and have unmounted and deleted them from the /usr/local/poudriere .etc but in the output of zfs list there are still a great number of datasets beginning in zroot that are...

Hi guys, I have an older Synology DiskStation, which I had been using as an iSCSI LUN Then from the server the iSCSI connection works, but the disk cannot be mounted. mount # mount /dev/da0 /mnt mount: /dev/da0: No such file or directory da0 is not part of any zpool and does not contain a...

I just created a new system from sysinstall (used the 12.0-RELEASE ISO) and chose to use the nice, menu driven ZFS boot config that is now in sysinstall. Everything went fine and I am booted up, etc. however I am really surprised to see all of the individual filesystems that were created for me...

Hi, For a NAS, the question is UFS or ZFS for main drive ? I'm thinking about 2 options, which one would you recommend ? It is a recent hardware, Intel i3. 8Go. Main drive is an old 1To classical HDD while the 4 other one are new 4To 'NAS' HDD of 2 different brands. No SSD. Option 1 full ZFS...

Having a tough time understanding something and can't figure out what happened. This morning an nfs share stopped working on my dev environment, it was working fine yesterday. After some head scratching, I relalized that my /home/ directory isn't a symlink to /usr/home/ anymore, it is a real...

I'd like to create a character device that serves as a single file's filesystem. Thus, I created my own device implementing read, write and mmap methods. For the experiment, I wish my device to be mounted by regular high-level filesystem and represent a dynamic library available for loading by...

About sysutils/dsbmd is a media mounting daemon written for FreeBSD. It detects and monitors storage devices (like USB sticks, hard disks, CD/DVD drives, card readers, digital cameras (PTP), MTP devices like smartphones, tablets etc.), and identifies their filesystems. Its clients can request...

By default the file system structure was set up as is set up so that /usr and /var are not inside a boot environment dataset and have canmount set to off. $ zfs list -H -o name,mountpoint,canmount NAME MOUNTPOINT CANMOUNT s${ZROOT}/ROOT none on ${ZROOT}/ROOT/default /...

I have a single disk on my server. I simply went for ZFS "stripe" (no redundancy) when installing FreeBSD. zpool status prints the following: pool: zroot state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zroot ONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p4 ONLINE...

Hello guys! Recently I have tried to set up FreeBSD on my Raspberry Pi. So I burnt my microSD on macOS with "dd if=/path/to/img_file of=/dev/disk1 bs=1 conv=sync" and used for its intended purpose without any problems. But after some time I have noticed, that files have been erased after...

Hi everyone, I'm puzzled on an issue, which I've had before but this time I am really puzzled. I have upgraded my FreeBSD 10.3 machine to 11 and everything seems to be working perfectly. However I am seeing lots of this error in /var/log/messages. inumber .. on /var: filesystem full I have...