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file locking mandated by OS/filesystem rather than opted into by file accessors?
Is there a way to have the OS (specifically, FreeBSD) or filesystem (specifically, ZFS) enforce that all access (or, at least, all non-root access, I guess) to a certain file must be done while the ...
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I'm out of space on /var. How do I resize and move a UFS partition?
I was upgrading FreeBSD packages as part of a minor version upgrade and I ran out of space on /var/cache/pkg. Now I need to
shrink /usr
move /usr and /tmp
grow /var
Is this possible with FreeBSD? If ...
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How to fix my partition after mistaken gpart bootcode?
I was trying to make my HDD bootable and did
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i1 ada0s1
and now I got "Invalid partition" message on boot.
/boot was from USB drive, not from HDD (...
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Swapping a mounted drive between machines - is it possible?
Let's say I have a storage device called A.
I install A into my machine M1 (which contains a drive called B which is
a unix boot drive containing the operating system).
I then boot up M1 and mount ...
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How do I format an internal hard drive so that FreeBSD, Linux and Windows can all access it?
I'd like to know how to format a 2 TB hard drive so that FreeBSD, Linux and Windows can all access it and write to it. I've tried using my own brain on this one and making a singular partition on it ...
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ACL inheritance recalculation on FreeBSD - when does it happen and can I force inheritance recalculation rather than set explicit ACLs?
If I'm using NFSv4 ACLs on FreeBSD, and I change the ACLs on a directory in a way that affects the inherited ACLs of its child files+dirs (and potentially might cascade and affect the children/...
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Is it possible to boot Linux from Raw partition?
I have a FreeBSD box running on x86_64. Box have 1 TB of HDD with 9 partition out of which 8 are formatted in UFS2 and one is raw partition (200 GB ). FreeBSD running currently do not have ext2 ...
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Creating a ext2 partition on FreeBSD 10.1 running on x86 based box with MBR partitioning
I have old FreeBSD machine running on x86 based platform with below MBR partitioning
pod0226-wsa115:rtestuser 1] uname -a
FreeBSD pod0226-wsa115 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 10 15:25:...
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Create filesystem in regular file using FreeBSD
When using Linux, one can easily create a regular file of some size and then create a filesystem in it. How can one do the same thing when using FreeBSD?
I tried this:
root@:/tmp/test # newfs -U ~/...
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How to Run Tunefs on Root Filesystem in FreeBSD?
I want to enable ACLs for a FreeBSD 11 system. According to the FreeBSD Handbook this can be done in two ways:
By using a mount option -- mount -o acls
By modifying a superblock -- tunefs -a enable
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Cleanest way to copy data from UFS file system to FAT file system?
On x86_64 machine running FreeBSD 10.1 when I'm un-taring an file and getting below error for all files in tar :
x var/lib/nfs/statd/sm.bak/: Can't set user=1002/group=1002 for var/lib/nfs/statd/sm....
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How to format & mount a large partition with 4k sector size in Freebsd?
gpart show -l:
=> 6 146239733 da0 GPT (558G)
6 10 - free - (40K)
16 128 1 (null) (512K)
144 262144 2 efi (1.0G)
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How to approach planning a BSD file server's outward-facing file hierarchy [closed]
I'm migrating data on an informal home server to a new FreeNAS (FreeBSD 10) based file server running samba, and I'm stuck in trying to plan how to lay the data out, to give correct access to ...
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Filesystem to share disks between Linux and FreeBSD
I have recently decided to install FreeBSD on my desktop but I still have several computers running GNU/Linux and I would like to share disk partitions between the two OSs, in particular:
The ...
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FreeBSD nullfs and strange file size
How to determine a correct file size? It cannot be 680G. I suppose it's somehow related to some nullfs related feature
# ls -lah system.log
-rw-r----- 1 web vuser 680G 21 Jul 22:59 system.log
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