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Everything before the / is the homedirs path only? It's the $HOME dir. export HOME="" ends ~ interpretation. I think /usr/bin/login remembers it because it reads de passwd file anyway and passes it to the shell.

You mean the fstab on clonezilla which has just booted via PXE? If you insists. here it is:- # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM overlay / overlay rw 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0 But I suspect the error msg has no real bearing on...

Can anyone explain what is happening here:- PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes 92 bytes from 192.168.194.75: Destination Net Unreachable Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 0054 2e17 0 0000 40 01...

So ~ stands for the 7th field of the passwd file? I thought it was a POSIX demand that all shells comply with. It still works without the password files, though. It's not using $HOME?

True but every program you run inside the chrootdir has to be there including dll's. /bin/ln needs libc and libstdbuf.

I thought the idea of it was to make referencing to the home dir of different users universal. They can all use the same application that installs things there. It's also time-efficient at manual CLI operation. ~ = my homedir. I often use >~/a to...

Very solid thanks for posting ideas. We have lots of these servers and big plans to upgrade most of them to FreeBSD 15. Our problem has been resolved. Thanks Chris and EK and others for suggestions. I also have a similar post on HPE forums which...

Thanks! Kohrokho, I leave here a note in case it may prove useful: if you end up following handbook's doc on linuxator and using libc6-shim, beware of where you install the Linux environment. The handbook, for Debian/Ubuntu installs, recommends...

Hi gang! Editorial Fun fact: I've been using FreeBSD for quite a while now and to be perfectly honest with you lot I'm (still) quite passionate about the whole thing. Always have, always will be. At the time of writing my backup VPS server is...

I can as well say that I left all other car brands for BMW :P

Why are we over 50 posts in this thread? OP decides FreeBSD doesn't work for them, ok fine. Don't use it. Why be dramatic about "leaving FreeBSD". I've never understood threads like this. If one decides that a Ford automobile does not meet...

FWIW I create other people's files with sudo -u username ... Saves the cleanup later.

The source file should be ~/file for all users, pointing to their own home dir. Problem was that ~/file gets translated to /root/file always because root runs this code. ~<user> does avoid that.

Hm, I never used that. Was expecting something liike this but only tried with /. Kind of stupid. 😑

Oh come on. The error message clearly says your fstab is screwed up. Did it occur to you to post it?

~username/foo

Note to self when I was grappling with a similar situation/ https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/nfs-v3-v4-on-same-server.92489/#post-645093

This is not a real problem. I just noticed this CLI admin dilemma. I have a script that adds 4 predefined users to a target FreeBSD installation dir. It runs as root. All users of the target system have file aaa in their home directory. They also...

When I drop into the shell in Clonezilla (based on Debian) I try to mount the NFS share but get this error which means nothing to me:- mount.nfs: failed to apply fstab options I just found this link which I will try to comprehend:-...

Ilovehotdog No. 16-CURRENT is the OS but it will use the same driver.

At run time, when that one running in a tmux session, I have no matches: [21:04 r730-01 dvl ~] % ls -l /dev/nm* zsh: no matches found: /dev/nm* [21:04 r730-01 dvl ~] %

You don't need the backup file to be sparse if you compress it. Instead of compressing disk backup files I store them uncompressed on a ZFS with compression and dedup enabled. That gives huge savings with incremental new backups of the same...

I'm in the process of trying to get working via PXE, but can't get an NFS mount set up properly. Rather I think I did about ten years ago, but I'm trying to create a script so that I can automatically back up any disk I attach to my PXE client...

Windows XP will generally not boot anyway when you change the PC too much or use a different one. To make compression of the disk image more effective you should write a large file of zeros to fill up the filesystem, then unlink it. You should...

Its a disk with an installation of Windows XP which I'd like to keep a backup copy of in case I need again at some time so I don't have to go through the pain of installing it again.

There is options CAM_IOSCHED_DYNAMIC non-default build time option (kernel configuration), but maybe it's not the OP wants. And as this is kernel configuration, enabling it requires custom kernel. From my memo in my kernel configuration...

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New release - v2.0 — 2026-04-25 - Automatic backup creation for "/etc/sysctl.conf" and "/boot/loader.conf" for safe rollback. - Resolved problem with un‑commented variables in "/etc/sysctl.conf" and "/boot/loader.conf". Try FBSD-Net-Autotuner

These lines write in /etc/sysctl.conf 192 echo "# Added by fbsd-net-autotuner on $(date '+%F %T')" >> /etc/sysctl.conf 193 echo "${key}=${val}" >> /etc/sysctl.conf the next line is for write in the log 194 log "Added persistent $key=$val to...

balanga, you didn't specify the type of data on that system and whether you need the entire filesystem byte for byte. Assuming it's just regular "user data" files, I'd simply do a: tar -cvzf /mnt/path/to/backup.tar.gz /path/to/my/data

I tried creating a second HASS instance. It has the same start problem. I was able to create a new VM and get it running, but only when using -f Followed https://community.home-assistant.io/t/homeassistant-on-freebsd-using-bhyve/859127/1...

This seems to be the main difference between -f and not using -f: This is the failed start: 2026-04-25T17:31:05+00:00: [bhyve console: -l com1,/dev/nmdm-hass.1A] This is the start with -f which succeeds: 2026-04-25T17:32:01+00:00: [bhyve...

OK, so desktop and building at the same time. Do you currently observe problems doing that? Does youtube stutter or something?

I used innoextract for Oblivion: innoextract --extract --exclude-temp --output-dir ~/'.wine/The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion/drive_c/Program Files' ~/'Downloads/Oblivion/setup_oblivion_1.2.0416_cs_(12788).exe' && mv -f ~/'.wine/The Elder Scrolls...

Again, the question is whether you run your desktop at the same time and if so whether you notice issues.

Chris I. Nailed it! Adding set console="eficom" during boot (ESC to add boot options and then "boot") booted it up as it should. Then adding the same option to the /boot/loader.conf file has everything working great again. Thanks!

Is this a Gen10-11? I picked up a HPE MicroServer Gen11 and it has trouble booting 15.0. It's a open issue related to iLO console/serial port that seems to affect some recent model HPE and Dell machines. It's already been patched in CURRENT. For...

dev.hwpstate_intel.0.epp="0" is cooler :cool: I'd have no scheduler with NVMe (general software scheduling likely slower than hardware-specific NVMe scheduling) I prefer traditional schedulers; an article implied sched_ext is useful for HT/SMT...

Worth a try: store the partition table of the entire disk with fdisk -f and treat the content as a usual directory tree Compress it to 1 file with a tar/gzip pipe. To restore the disk from nothing, the partition table must be written back and the...

I don't know why these error messages are appearing: sysctl: kern.ipc...: Invalid argument I see there are some kernel variables without comments. I need to fix that. Thanks for testing it and sharing the results.

I believe tests should be conducted under the strictest possible equality of conditions: first comparing all OS in VM, and then comparing all OS on bare metal both without extra network loads and after with additional network loads (such as...

Maturin I have no problem with anything related to files/disks using UFS. I'm simply talking about Windows installations. I think I will try to use Clonzilla which I can start up easily via PXE and then backup via NFS to my server. From my...

Lxqt,

You could start by explaining why you don't want to back up an in-filesystem view, such as just tarring it up. You only need to deal with free space when you do a disk view backup.

We can't read minds. No context, hence someone asked, and that filled in the blanks.

You list 2 workloads and say "3". Anyway, gaming with no background load is trivial. Since there's no competition it doesn't matter how smart you schedule. As for desktop with compilation in the background, do you observe actual problems (other...

It was a parody on Alfredo's. He's going on my nerves.

If you want to dig into the details based on your network setup, just install it and give it a try. Even if it’s only for hands-on learning, you’ll pick up useful insights. Have fun experimenting!

This model does not do image generation.