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Disks	Upgrades
File Systems	ZFS


Disks
	Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000 Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000 Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001 Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002 Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios 13 Mar 2010 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010


File Systems
	Samba - connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft 18 Oct 1998 swap files - how to get more swap space 1 Nov 1998 Samba - more on passwords/logon and shares 3 Nov 1998 Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD 3 Nov 1998 NTFS Driver for FreeBSD 8 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Mounting a SCSI CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999 Allowing anonymous FTP 10 Jun 1999 Filesystem is not clean - run fsck 20 Jun 1999 out of inodes 5 Jul 1999 vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 symbolic links which are difficult to remove 18 Jan 2000 NFS - sharing file systems across a network 19 Feb 2000 Stripping ^M from your files 4 Mar 2000 drive to drive backup 8 May 2000 Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000 Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000 NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered 27 Jun 2000 Quotas - installation and configuration (by James) 23 Jul 2000 file system full 1 Sep 2000 mounting an ISO image 2 Sep 2000 Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000 uptime, w, and who show nobody logged in 2 Nov 2000 Setting up an encrypted file system (by Niklas Saers) 6 Jan 2001 Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001 Growing your filesystem with growfs (by Will Andrews) 19 Aug 2002 Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002 mknod - create the device, then mount 5 Jan 2004 What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? 29 Dec 2005 Card reader for FreeBSD 10 Apr 2006 Converting a system to RAID 7 Feb 2007 c partition goes away in FreeBSD 8 22 Nov 2009 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010 ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011


Upgrades
	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000 installing FreeBSD 4.0-Release 6 May 2000 FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 4.1-STABLE - fetch now going just fine 2 Aug 2000 How long does it take to upgrade via cvsup? 15 Aug 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001 ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! 16 Feb 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 mailwrapper exited on signal 11 30 Nov 2009 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010


ZFS
	ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010 ZFS upgrade 20 Sep 2010 ZFS: promote 22 Sep 2010 ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011