ZFS: Resizing your zpool I’m about to rebuild my ZFS array (which I documented in my other diary). The array has been running for a while, but I recently learned some new facts about ZFS which spurred me on to rebuilding my array with future-proofing in mind. This is my plan for tonight. As I […]
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ZFS: do not give it all your HDD I’m about to rebuild my ZFS array (which I documented in my other diary). The array has been running for a while, but I recently learned some new facts about ZFS which spurred me on to rebuilding my array with future-proofing in mind. This is my plan
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Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios Monitoring of your computer systems is a good idea. There are many tools that let you verify that specified services are running, and available for clients. I use Nagios. You can check that Apache is still running, Postfix is still accepting mail, and various other things. If you
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Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore It was just over three weeks ago that Serial Consoles can be very useful hit the airwaves. Now it is time to use this valuable asset in battle. As I write this, I am in Ottawa. There is a machine in Wellington which contains a
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Concatenated Disk Configuration It seems like today everyone has a collection of multimedia files. Everything from mp3’s to video clips. I’ve converted most of my audio CDROM collection to mp3’s so I can have all of my music in one centralized location, and not have to hunt down the audio CD with that one song
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Adding more swapfiles If you want to add a swapfile, perhaps you should read swap files first. This article deals with adding a additional swapfile after adding your first swapfile. So if you already have a swap file (and I’m not talking about a swap partition), and you want to add another, then this is
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swap files – how to get more swap space NOTE: After I wrote this diary entry, the Handbook section on swap files has been brought to my attention. Perhaps that resource will provide you with better information than this entry. If you’ve already added one swapfile, and want to add more, see also Adding more
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Swapping boot drives around The NZ FreeBSD User Group was given a box which was destined to become the cvsup and www mirror. The first thing I did was swap the two 500MB drives out and put in three 1GB drives. This articles documents how I did that. You may wish to first read about
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Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD One of the most common and oft-misunderstood steps in installing FreeBSD. But it’s quite straight forward. Note that 3.1 and above needs two floppies. Previous versions used only one floppy. What are boot floppies for? The boot floppy contains a minature version of FreeBSD. Just enough for it to see
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Using your floppy The following is an answer I sent to the FreeBSD questions mailing list: On 15 Jan 99, at 22:19, Roy D. Fulton wrote: > I’m new to FreeBSD and am quite rusty with UNIX period. I’m having > trouble trying to use the floppy. Can anyone give me examples of the >