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. In this post: FreeBSD 14.2 FreeBSD 14.3-STABLE git-2.50.1 git-tiny-2.50.1 This came about when recent commits to security/vuxml weren’t showing up on in my host, despite doing pkg audit -f – this was several hours after the commit. trouble told me to check this jail on that host. Eventually I figured out the […]| dan.langille.org
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). I must say though, I’m not liking this option. […]| 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). pool: zroot state: ONLINE status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable. action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done, the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support the features. See zpool-features(7) for details. scan: scrub repaired […]| 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. [16:37 x8dtu dvl ~] % grep ada3 /var/log/messages Jul 4 15:19:59 x8dtu smartd[8217]: Device: /dev/ada3, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jul 4 16:19:58 x8dtu smartd[8217]: Device: /dev/ada3, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jul 4 17:19:59 x8dtu smartd[8217]: Device: /dev/ada3, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jul 4 18:19:58 x8dtu […]| Dan Langille's Other Diary
This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It replaces an earlier post. This new post was created after I added a new spare via Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD. [17:22 r730-03 dvl ~] % uname -a FreeBSD r730-03.int.unixathome.org 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64 gpart [17:25 r730-03 dvl ~] % gpart show => 40 937703008 ada0 GPT (447G) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 984 - free - (492K) […]| 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. Here it is, as found in /var/log/messages – this host is a Dell R730 which has drive cages allowing me to insert the drive without powering off the host. Jun 30 16:17:15 […]| Dan Langille's Other Diary
I have a new-to-me-laptop. This post isn’t about setting it up, installing applications, etc. Nor is it about copying data from the old laptop to the new laptop.| Dan Langille's Other Diary
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