Automated local backups
These days it is commonplace to have hardware or software RAID1, even in common PCs. In previous machines I’ve …
Articles about freebsd
Updating multiple systems using a pre-built FreeBSD
Recently I updated my workstation to FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p1. Since my laptop runs the same OS, I wanted …
Should system backups be compressed?
Every now and then I make backups of my FreeBSD system’s filesystems with the venerable dump program. This is …
Updating to FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p1
There have been some changes in the FreeBSD update process. The csup program has been retired, source code updating is …
Writing speed on FreeBSD 9-RELEASE-p3 amd64
Now that I’ve switched to FreeBSD 9.0, I thought I’d repeat the write speed test I did …
Writing speed on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64
Recently the question came up how fast the write speed of a disk drive on FreeBSD should be. I decided …
Using nullfs and unionfs for the ports tree in a jail
When running a virtual server in a jail, one would like to avoid replication of files as much as practical …
Updating to FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE
Updating my desktop to 8.1-RELEASE from 8.0 was pretty straightforward. I used the following steps
- Made a …
Enlarging networking buffers
In the hope of increasing networking performance, I’ve set the following sysctls in /etc/sysctl.conf;
# Increase send/receive …
Defining command completions for tcsh
The default interactive shell is tcsh. Recently I discovered that this shell also has the ability to complete your command-line …