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Comment on 10 useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD by Alex.V

Alex.V — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:54:38 +0000

No “tmux” ?
I bet if you will start using it instead of old GNU’s “screen” you will delete “screen” from this list

I found also that “IOZONE” show incorrect results on BSD based OS’s.
FreeBSD include in the base nice utility “diskinfo” that show more realistic data.

Comment on 10 useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD by UmasK

UmasK — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:46:34 +0000

Hi Rafael,

Enjoy the show

Cheers,

Rick

Comment on 10 useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD by Rafael Lopes

Rafael Lopes — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:06:29 +0000

Came to this post via LinkedIn topic on FreeBSD group.
Congratulations for your blog! It’s very handy. I will follow the rss right now =)
Thank you for sharing your BSD knowledge.

Cheers from Brazil

Comment on How to install FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE with ZFS root Filesystem by Nick

Nick — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:28:28 +0000

Nice tutorial!
The easier way to do this would be to download the msfBSD special image from http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ such as 9.0-RELEASE amd64 special edition which already has zfs v28. You can setup a root on zfs install with the simple instructions located on that page: “The special edition contains a special distribution file and the zfsinstall script.
You can easily install ZFS-on-root FreeBSD with this script.
Example: zfsinstall -d /dev/ad0 -t /cdrom/8.2-RELEASE-amd64.tar.xz -s 4G
This will install a GPT partition table and ZFS on /dev/ad0, including a 4 GB GPT freebsd-swap partiton.”

Your tutorial is very informative though, and offers greater control on compression and other zfs options.

Comment on 10 useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD by UmasK

UmasK — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:06:02 +0000

Hi Eric,

Yes, that’s true. I have never intented to insinuate that the tools I mentioned were part of base FreeBSD.

Cheers,

Rick

Comment on How to install FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE with ZFS root Filesystem by UmasK

UmasK — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:04:50 +0000

Hi Frederic,

I have never tried this with raidz, so I can’t be sure, but I guess you can set up the zfs array with something like replacing the ‘zpool create zroot ad0p2′ line with something like ‘zpool create create zroot raidz ad0p2 ad1p2 ad2p2 ad3p2 ad4p2 etc. etc. etc.’…

Cheers,

Rick

Comment on How to install FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE with ZFS root Filesystem by Frederic

Frederic — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:32:28 +0000

Hi Rick,

Thank you very much for this good tutorial and happy new year. I was wondering how the installation is done using raidz?
I have 4 x 36.4GB SCSI HDD. Do i need to set them all as raid0?

Many thanks in advance

Comment on 10 useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD by Eric Crist

Eric Crist — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:38:51 +0000

Screen is installed from ports, and is not a part of base FreeBSD.

Comment on How to log in to a server behind a server with SSH by UmasK

UmasK — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:31:52 +0000

yes, it is possible to do something like: ssh user@box1 “scp file(s) user@box2″

Comment on How to log in to a server behind a server with SSH by Phil

Phil — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:14:27 +0000

I use an activeX dll in windows to run automation scrips to collect log files from unix remotes and scp them back to services box. The advantage to me is that I can embed “& vbrlf” and Regex for the different prmpts I get back. However if read correctly here I can do a one linnet at the unix prompt or in a shell script?

E.g. Ssh frm box1 to box2 and then scp the log files to box3….actually the remotes are a mixture of red hat and solaris….

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but the thread caught me eye, and love tips that can be put to practical use….

Phil