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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Setting up an encrypted file system This article was written by Niklas Saers I had long been hearing from my Linux using friends about their different encrypted filesystems and wanted one for FreeBSD. The reasons for this are many: I have copies of all my emails and mails from the golden BBS days until now
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uptime, w, and who show nobody logged in I was working on a box for a client. They asked me to help. After fixing the problem, I checked to see if the client was still logged in. Here’s what I saw: [root@p100:/var/log] # who [root@p100:/var/log] # w 9:21PM up 5:18, 0 users, load
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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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mounting an ISO image This is how to mount an ISO image. Actually, it can be used for other images as well. See the note at the end of this article for details. If you have just created an ISO image, say with mkisofs, there is a way to mount the image and view it
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file system full This is not a message you want to see very often: set /kernel: pid 801 (mysqld), uid 88 on /var: file system full Hmmm, mysqld ran out of space on /var. That’s not nice. Over a 36 hour period, the FreshPorts webserver ran out of space on /var four times. This effectively
Quotas – installation and configuration James wrote in with this how-to. Thank you. Add QUOTA to your kernel Your kernel needs the following in its kernel configuration file: options QUOTA For instructions on how to create a new kernel, refer to the Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel section in the FreeBSD handbook. Pay special attention
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NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered Over the past 9 months or so, this problem has been a recurring issue. It would go away only to return at a later date. It was getting to be very annoying. The crunch came this morning when I opened the XEON box in order to disconnect a
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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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Changing the owner of your ports tree This is a fairly advanced topic. I don’t mean it’s complicated. It’s just that there is very little reason for anyone to want to do this. I wanted my ports tree to be maintained by something other than root. By default, FreeBSD allows the ports tree to
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