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Hi, I have an issue with Seagate ST10000NM0016 drives sporadically refusing to work. 8 of them are attached to a 9207-8i controller and assembled in a RAIDZ2. At unpredictable intervals, drives throw errors like (da6:mps2:0:45:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE(10). CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00...

I'd like to reduce disk size to 10G on bhyve VM. Is it possible to do it on "live" system and keep untouched data? Eventually on single user boot. => 34 83886013 vtbd0 GPT (40G) 34 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1058 83884958 2 freebsd-ufs (40G)...

Woke up this morning to a mostly non-responsive server and a console filled up with messages like this (messages log for just the last 8 hours is 126M): Mar 8 07:36:17 xeon kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1 (init) Mar 8 07:36:17 xeon kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed...

I am using Freebsd 11 installation for several months and have some issues with some applications usage for example firefox, thunderbird or qtcreator can hang and not respond for any action for ~10s. I wanted to investigate this issue but my knowledge in BSD has ended and I need help. I checked...

I am an average Linux user used to Debian Linux and I am not system admin or anything like that, just home user and from yesterday I am new to FreeBSD. Yesterday I installed FREEBSD from USB and my disk is 400 GB but it shows 383 GB. Only I don't know why and only this is my operating system on...

I am unpacking a large tar file. top -m io shows that bsdtar uses 100.00% (not sure of what, probably disk io). Is it possible to "throttle" the disk usage when starting the tar command in a similar way that nice -n 20 would "throttle" the amount of CPU the process takes (alters the scheduling...

Hi, as we all know there is no single command to show storage devices on FreeBSD system. Some grep the dmesg command, some check /var/run/dmesg.boot file, some try camcontrol command and so on ... as I struggle to create any empathy for Linux systems I really like the lsblk command and I always...