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My Synology ds112j nas which i used to share files between Freebsd, Linux and Mac osx just died on me I have a 2 terabyte backup of the nas on an external drive which is formatted as Linux ext4 which is the filesystem used by the synology nas So i need to copy the backup to an external usb...

I want to use a disk with ZFS and I want to use the best practices... Both for an SSD and for an HDD The process: Delete the disk # gpart destroy -F da0 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m count=128 Prepare the disk # gpart create -s GPT da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l storage -a 1M da0...

Hello community, as I’ve asked to my friend Trev (but I solicit him very much): here’s my problematic: I was thinking about laptop and I’ve seen a lot of threads/discussions told that a laptop (the Thinkpad X1 carbon 6th generation from Levono ) is just the perfect desktop to use FreeBSD « out...

Greetings everyone, I'm a GNU/Linux user (Fedora), and I just wanted to give FreeBSD a try with a Virtual MAchine (VBox). First I tried to install FreeBSD with BIOS mode and slim and MATE desktop according to this guide : https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-mate-desktop-in-freebsd...

Hello all, I would like to contribute to dev projects through the FreeBSD dashboard (https://reviews.freebsd.org/). I'm wondering if someone can help me get started? Thank you!

hello y try to login in my freebsd but when i put Login : as "root"and the passwd it says " Login incorrect" i try to change passwd by "single user" but after using /sbin/mount -u / and then "passwd" its says me #passwd : who are you? when i use " Whoami" its say i also try to use fsck -y and...

Synergy lets you share your keyboard and mouse between multiple computers and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi. A lot of Freebsd users use Macs because of the unix underpinnings, despite the fact the mac ships with a version of bash from 2007 because later version of bash use...

Hello, I have a FreeBSD 12 PC with Gnome Desktop. Currently i am connected using LAN. I am decide to connect to a VPN. (Kerio, Cisco Connect, L2PP, PP2P) $ ifconfig re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500...

Hi , I'm new to FreeBSD and I'm trying to make the server to send all the system logs to a remote server and I'm failing because every time I modify the /etc/syslog.conf file and once I restart syslog service /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart the /etc/syslog.conf file return to default configuration...

I would like to try FreeBSD after I tried out Linux. I have tested FreeBSD earlier on VirtualBox, and it succeeded. I have created my FreeBSD USB using dd as my first attempt on Kali Linux, following the tutorial. I have used FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT 2019/2/28 memstick.img as my release for testing...

I am going to install my new system with a zpool mirror volume as the root. The instructions for this process are quite clear and I see how to follow them: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror ... all the way through using install.sh to: for dir in base catpages dict doc...

Hi all! The problem is slow upload speed with transmission. Neither FreeBSD, no soft does not cut the speed. # uname -srm FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p7 amd64 Transmission version % transmission-daemon -V transmission-daemon 2.94 (0) Transmission config root@beast:/usr/local/etc/transmission # cat...

I use it for development, you know, Programming 'n stuff... :) I also use it for ZFS, since I keep backups of my friends' and family members' data. :) I also use it for other things, like when I use Linux, but want more of a UN*X-y feel. It also speaks to how good of an OS it is when I...

Hi All, I'm a network engineer looking to better understand the network subsystem of FreeBSD (unix systems) and in particular how it differs from the linux kernel network subsystem. Any good links or books? I believe iproute2 (this is a package, not a subsystem, right?) is used by linux, so...

Hello all, I have just recently upgraded from 11.2 to 12.0 and my graphics settings are now borked. Previously I had the terminal resolution set to 1280x720 with this code in /boot/loader.conf It was using this: i915kms_load="YES" kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1280x720" if I load it in manually...

my mistake probably overload system. I configured syslog client (maybe server too). After boot on console in cycle printing "logmsg: pri 2, flags 17, from Device". How I must solve this problem? Thank so much

Hi , i'am not speak english , i'ts not my language , so sorry by mistakes in english. The title of this topic is my question , i'am a user of arch and that system Rolling Realese is awesome to keep the ram on 400MB~ using i3wm with chromium and others applications. I'm testing the FreeBSD on a...

Hello All, I have a lenovo 120s-11iap laptop which I am attempting to install FreeBSD on. The laptop has no ethernet jack so I was hoping during installation that my wireless device would be discovered so that I could connect to my network. However when I attempt to configure an IP4 address...

Hello all. I'm a basic FreeBSD user, I'm learning. My problem is that I set a good date and time when installing the system after disabling and enabling Virtualbox (where FreeBSD was installed). Time changed by +2 hours and the date is in 2018-09-17 format and I would like to 17.09. 2018 07:21...

Hello, I am using virtual box and freebsd 10.4 stable for my game server I am logining game it is not problem but my friend is logining then console is giving this: error maximum authentication attempts exceeded for root from port (here is port like 48010) ssh2 preauth It is about FreeBSD...