Sep 28 2025 | dan.langille.org
Today I was trying to access my Dell 730 (r730-01) via the remote console. I failed. Twice. First and expected failure First, this was usual and expected. It’s been a problem both at home and at work. It is the inability to access the console via https using the hostname This is what I see: I can get in via IP address though. Second and new-to-me failure Next, after logging in via IP […]| Dan Langille's Other Diary
Recently I’ve been playing with NVMe to find out more about monitoring for wear. Tried nvme-cli: [17:49 r730-01 dvl ~] % nvme list Failed to scan topology: No such file or directory Seems it is a known problem. Went with this instead: [17:52 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo nvmecontrol devlist nvme0: Samsung SSD 980 PRO with Heatsink 1TB nvme0ns1 (953869MB) nvme1: Samsung SSD 980 PRO with Heatsink 1TB nvme1ns1 (953869MB) With more information […]| Dan Langille's Other Diary
I have a jail on r730-01 called dvl-ingress01.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
Jun 30 2025 | dan.langille.org
I’m ready to update r730-01 (I see that link is from 2024 – I’ll refresh it after this update) from FreeBSD 14.2 to FreeBSD 14.3. First, some clean up: [21:04 r730-01 dvl ~] % bectl list BE Active Mountpoint Space Created 14.2-RELEASE-p4_2025-08-08_112039 - - 342M 2025-08-08 11:20 default NR / 11.6G 2024-06-19 16:38 testing - - 74.0M 2025-08-09 10:59 [21:04 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo bectl destroy 14.2-RELEASE-p4_2025-08-08_112039 [21:04 r730-01 dvl ~] % […]| Dan Langille's Other Diary
It’s been some time since I asked for public donations for hardware. In this case, I’m asking for donations to buy two more storage devices to expand this zpool: [18:08 r730-01 dvl ~] % zpool list data02 NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT data02 1.73T 1.39T 351G - - 66% 80% 1.00x ONLINE - Most of the space is used for FreshPorts, however it is not for the […]| Dan Langille's Other Diary
I use Mac laptops. Have for years. I make use of their Time Machine backups.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
This is mostly for my future reference, for when this happens the next time. I hope it saves me 10-15 minutes of pondering.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
This post shows how I used a git spare checkout to build vuxml files without having the whole ports tree present.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
Jul 13 2025 | dan.langille.org
In recent posts: Doing a bit of stress work on a new HDD x8dtu: adding in the smaller drive Swapping zpools – moving from using main_tank to using data If you have a look over those posts, you’ll see why you never want to downsize a zpool. In this post: FreeBSD 14.2 removing the zfs labels from an drive which was part of a zpool which is no longer in use destroying the […]| Dan Langille's Other Diary
As mentioned in Doing a bit of stress work on a new HDD, I have a failing 5TB drive which is going to be replace by a 4TB drive. Only about 1.45TB are used, so there’s plenty of space to grow. If you get one thing from this post, don’t be downsizing zpools like this. I would have had much less work and opportunity for error, if I had returned that 4TB drive […]| Dan Langille's Other Diary
I was up at 5:30 AM today. I packed the car and headed out. I arrived within the datacenter at about 8:15 or so. By 8:50, I was on IRC and the photos of the FreeBSD racks were uploading. Since I was going there anyway, I did some inventory and disposal work (a decommissioned server, about 25 old HDD, and various bits and pieces).| Dan Langille's Other Diary
As foreshadowed in x8dtu – drive problems, I will be visiting a data center soon to replace a 4TB HDD. The replacement HDD arrived last night. It was unceremoniously tossed onto the front porch by the courier. However, it was properly packaged. I’m sure it’s fine.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
Let’s look at these two SSDs (full smartctl output appears at the end).| Dan Langille's Other Diary
For a few days now, this drive in x8dtu has been having a hard time. I think it’s time to buy a replacement. Or two.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
This is a follow up to Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD from two months ago. The replacement for the returned drive has arrived and after sitting for many weeks on my coffee table, it is installed in r730-03.| Dan Langille's Other Diary