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Written by woozong 🅅 on 2024-12-28 at 11:13

Looks like I'm soon to be a #freebsd admin on my qnap nas.. as one does during solstice holidays :)

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Written by woozong 🅅 on 2024-12-28 at 19:24

Manipulating the qnap's mmc to get it to boot freebsd got me nowhere.. when the loader.efi starts, no devices (including the nvme where I installed) are available.. but there's a grub in there, so looking into that now..

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Written by woozong 🅅 on 2024-12-29 at 13:33

Rrrright.. I'm currently booting #freebsd on the qnap from a usb with root partition on an internal nvme. Good enough for step 1 and I learned a lot about booting the qnap and freebsd in the process. I formed some good ideas on how to go the mmc route, but that's for later.

Next up: setting up zfs on the nas drives and re-instating wintersea (that's its hostname) as our home file-server.

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Written by woozong 🅅 on 2024-12-30 at 16:41

One of the drives was properly mapped as an lvm drive with all data intact. Destroyed the other one, added it to a zfs pool and rsyncing... out with the old, in with the new :)

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Written by woozong 🅅 on 2024-12-31 at 17:11

oooh wow... bow to the goddess of #zfs!

what a gorgeous piece of work that is :)

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Written by woozong 🅅 on 2025-01-01 at 11:57

Realized most of this stuff just works and I shouldn't be overthinking it too much. Samba, avahi and personal & common shares set up went smoothly :)

Next up.. looking into jellyfin to (maybe) replace the old kodi setup

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Written by woozong 🅅 on 2025-01-01 at 17:11

Well.. now that I have been playing around for a few days, I'm a bit frustrated I didn't go for zfs on root 😒

The spinning disks of the NAS are together in a #zfs pool.

Root is currently in an nvme formatted with UFS.

How easy is it to re-install the system with zfs on root on the nvme and then re-attach the existing pool of spinning rust? Any special precautions to not lose that spinning rust pool?

[#]freebsd #zfs :boost_requested:

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Written by not Evander Sinque on 2025-01-01 at 17:21

@woozong shouldn't be too crazy complicated. You can probably tar everything up, copy to the zfs pool, reinstall, untar back and be back to your current setup, but on zfs. Or just save your config files and reinstall everything.

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Written by woozong 🅅 on 2025-01-01 at 17:25

@FiLiS for sure I'll be copying some configs to the pool first (samba setup et al 🙂 )

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Written by Josef 'Jeff' Sipek on 2025-01-01 at 17:36

@woozong The installer shouldn’t touch the disks you didn’t tell it to. But you could always unplug them for the installation.

After you boot the installed system, you can ‘zpool import ´. You might have to throw the -f option at it. Afterward, it should auto-import on boot.

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