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Dan Langille and MWL on BSD and ZFS
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Dan Langille ☛ Consolidating the disk space in r730-01
I’m writing this up to have a starting point for when I come back to arrange the free space into zpools. This post might be the end-result of a request for donations for disk space etc that went out on 2025-08-29 – I was running short of space. Since then, donations (both cash and hardware) have helped me figure out that problem.
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Dan Langille ☛ prod – moving to a SATADOM based zpool (zroot) using zfs snapshot and send | recv
In this post, I’m moving my zroot zpool from larger devices to smaller devices. Why? Well, the smaller devices happen to attach directly to the main board of my server, albeit with some slight modification to a fan cowl. There have been several recent posts regarding this topic. I tried a different zpool approach, where I added new devices to the zpool and removed the old devices. That worked.
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MWL ☛ “OpenZFS Mastery” sponsorships now open
I’ve shipped all the Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed sponsor gifts. I’m getting copies for the Kickstarter backers out the door. By popular demand, I’m opening sponsorships on OpenZFS Mastery, by myself and Allan Jude. Epub sponsors get their names in the epub/mobi versions of the book.