FreeBSD: Adriaan de Groot on Recovering a Botched FreeBSD 14 Upgrade and Dan Langille on zpool

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2025

• Adriaan de Groot ☛ Recovering a Botched FreeBSD 14 Upgrade

  Naïvely, I ran freebsd-update -r 15.0-STABLE install in my regular FreeBSD desktop. That was a mistake.

  In principle freebsd-update is the way to update the installed system. In principle it works really smoothly, from binary release to binary release: it has a good manpage which tells you you can go from release to release. [...]

• Dan Langille ☛ data04: moving data01/bacula/volumes over

  After finally creating data04, it’s time to relocate some data. In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 The source The current zpool which is straining is data01: I plan to move data01/bacula/volumes over first, then data01/bacula/working. Let’s modify the source for better results on the move.

• Dan Langille ☛ Making room to creating a raidz2 from 8x 4TB devices – here. we. go.

  It’s time. Time to create the 8x 4T raidz2 zpool. That doesn’t happen in this post, hopefully the next one. But first, I have to move some stuff around, to free up all the 4TB devices.

• Dan Langille ☛ creating a raidz2 from 8x 4TB devices – here. we. go.

  It’s time. Time to create the 8x 4T raidz2 zpool.