As the nas zpool responsible for storing media and documents have been growing out of its space lately it was time to do something about it. This is how it looked previously. # zpool list san NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT san 3.62T 2.93T 710G 80% 1.00x ONLINE – # zpool status … Read More →
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Chrooting FTP users
The builtin ftp daemon in FreeBSD is able to lock users in secured directories by using chroot and is really simple to setup. There is a standardgroup called ftp with the groupid 14. Let’s make another group called ftpchroot as well. pw groupadd ftpchroot -g 15 Then create a filearea where the user should be … Read More →
Installing FreeBSD 9.1 using root on ZFS and GPT disks
This is partly based on the excellent guide at http://daemon-notes.com/articles/system/install-zfs/begin. Boot with FreeBSD 9.1 installer and select Live CD when the installer starts. Identify the disks you want to install to. SATA disks are named /dev/adaX and USB pendrives and SCSI drives are named /dev/daX. dmesg|egrep (ada|da) Of which output could look like this: da0 … Read More →
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