so i purchased a new proxmox server which is a dual xeon 1u and tossed an arc a310 in that. now my old proxmox server, a ryzen on an asrock server/workstation board with ecc, can be a playground. it still has an nvidia p400 in it (which isn’t great but isn’t bad at all). so […]
swap gpt labels for zfs
so i have an issue. i have a 36 bay nas running freebsd and i want to move disks around. i use gpt labeling in order to know where disks are. this is way better because you can label them into a grid and if one fails then you don’t have to go easter egg […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 13): do over
i get that my dual xeon supermicro 1u is ancient but the performance on it is seriously lacking. i am still having issues with the usb drives. so the last piece of hardware that i am going to get for this thing is a DOM. because it is only 16GB i am going to have […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 12): performance
so the first thing i used for testing was plex. it installs pretty straightforward. it’s just a quick pkg install (in the jail). i had gotten a lifetime plexpass back when plex was poor and it was cheap. nowadays it’s like buying gold. glad i rolled a 7 on that. either way. the server is […]
copying partition tables in freebsd
just a quick snippet because i know this is one of those things i will need later but will forget how to do and start searching for again. if you have to replace a drive in zfs it’s probably best (when you get the replacement drive) to make sure their partition tables match to keep […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 12): bhyve
there are other options to use for virtual machines but i am going to go with the freebsd project standard, bhyve. this will load the virtual machine module for freebsd. for management i am going to go with vm-bhyve which is now part of the whole freebsd.org team of things. these instructions are taken directly […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 11): jail
so a lot of tinkering and getting past quite a few learning curves i have successfully created a jail that i’m using as a “shell box” which is running freebsd 14.2-p3 RELEASE (latest RELEASE thus far although 14.3 is due out soon). as i said earlier i settled on using bastille which is really just […]
weechat znc playback
yeah. i still use irc. tested and true. typical config is to use znc for this and connect a client. weechat is a nice client to use in a shell. so i wanted the playback to work correctly. this assumes that you have weechat connected to znc already. there are a few things that make […]
freebsd jails rclone mounting
rclone is the only way to mount smb on freebsd. there used to be a helper called smbfs but that was abandoned long ago and was completely removed from the freebsd repository. so there are some things that i need to make a quick note of about this because i’ve been pulling my hair out […]
joining freebsd to ad using samba/winbind
yeah i get it. the cool kids are all using sssd. but i tend to have problems with sssd and freebsd. i just wasted an hour of my life trying to get it working and it kept failing inside of a jail. so i set it up with samba / winbind instead by using the […]