i still wish firefox had the damn onenote clipper plugin

errr

but it is /sbin/mount_msdosfs

what is?

mount -tmsdos goes to mount_msdosfs?

at least now i can get back to my manual pages work effort.. after this slight detour

manual page of mount_msdosfs says in HISTORY: “mount_msdos was renamed to the more aptly-named mount_msdosfs in FreeBSD 5.0.”

voy4g3r2: To tell you the truth, lately I just use the normal installer. But I think it's useful to see the moving parts.

So I'll keep the thing up to date generally.

this was great for the use of cloning a drive too

which was my use case.. and learned do NOT do a dd on a zfs partition.. that is no bueno

Hi all. if freebsd's onboard IKEv2 VPN racoon?

Is there any benefit to it over strongswan?

Wife just caught me on man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ftp(3) and thought it was BDSM pr0n

Title: ftp(3)

SamuelMarks: Tell her no, just daemons.

😈

on FreeBSD UNIX 14 I have a mouse pointer showing on the console/terminal that isn't movable, so how do I either get rid of it or turn it into a one-character bright rectangle like it maybe should look on command-line?

darwin: Sounds like you enabled `moused` during the installation. So just do `service moused stop`, and remove it from `/etc/rc.conf`.

I don't really understand what the point of it is, but it's there.

I guess.

thanks

i used it in the past but guess it doesn't work with that trackpad... and always was too hard to copy & paste with moused more than gpm

Yeah, I fell for the same problem when I installed my first few FreeBSD servers, but I figured it's an option you can set during the installation a few installations later.

HELO

What is the correct way to mount a USB flash drive now on FreeBSD?

I have just installed it as of two days ago and have not seen FreebSD for many years

I love it laready

*already

You can just mount it with: mount /dev/<device> /mnt

ok

What device would I be looking for?

usb?

cd usb

oops

welcome: gpart show shows all the devices and names for the names. Then you can use something like mount /dev/da0p1 /mnt

thankyou very much

replace the da0p1 whith what your device identifier is

yes, ok

lw

jbo: hi

lw, did you get the e-mail?

about wine? yes, ty

ack

lw, another example of showing that maintainers are supposed to do lots of work :p

jbo: i was already think about that stuff when i made the request, i just think it's better for a port to have *a* maintainer than none

lw, only if that maintainer is actually being a maintainer. otherwise I not really :)

lw, so, you're going for it? :)

it might make more to look for someone who wants to maintain both wine and wine-devel

why not you?

emulators/wine is a much more important and widely used package, i don't know if i want that much responsibility (or would have the time for it at least right now)

I assume if you can handle wine-devel (on the technical side) you can also handle wine? :)

emulators/wine is out of date anyway, maybe i'll start by updating that

that would be very appreciated

one problem with wine is new updates sometimes break existing software, which doesn't really matter for wine-devel, but i wonder if it makes sense to keep the existing port as emulators/wine80

and/or add the new one as emulators/wine90 and have a knob to select the version

that is a common discussion, yeah.

I'd recommend going with wine9 instead of wine90 tho

Errr.. help? I have two FreeBSD systems that are the same HW configuration-wise. Rebooted both. One came up fine, the other one failed to find my main ZFS data zpool. I tried some stuff, but noticed that I see the /dev/nvd devices and /dev/nvme devices, but not the partitions. `smartctl -a` identifies them and they look sane. Trying to `dd` data from the /dev/nvd fails.

pgib: do the disks show up in 'camcontrol devlist' and does 'zpool import' show any pools?

So I rebooted again and watched the console. I am getting a ton of "UNRECOVERED READ ERROR" across all of those drives. But a failure of the whole PCIe/NVMe hardware seems unlikely to me and it was reading and writing just fine prior to the reboot.

bad/loose cable (if they're not an M.2 slot)? although odd that a reboot would trigger that

can you show the entire text of one of the read errors?

They do not show in `camcontrol devlist`, but they also do not show in the functioning system. They are 10 U.2 drives. The nvd and nvme devfiles show, smartctl identifies the device, `nvmecontrol devlist` lists them.

lw, thanks for the help so far. Here are the boot time errors from /var/log/messages: bpa.st/TCNA

Title: View paste TCNA

pgib: unfortunately that's probably as much as i can help, i was hoping the read error might be more informative

Sheesh all 10 of these drives have errors according to smartctl. How would they all fail simultaneously? It can't be a "controller" right, as each drive is basically its own PCIe "controller"?

I feel silly suggesting this, but can you try cold power off, unplug for a minute, and then try again?

are the U.2 ports mounted on the motherboard? i have had PCI-X backplanes fail before, so i assume the same could happen to PCIe, although that wouldn't be my first assumption

I don't recall. It is a backplane of some sort at least. Both servers are Cisco UCS C225 M6. For funsies, I did an nvme reformat on one drive with `nvmecontrol /dev/nvme0`, and the drive is responsive again (albeit with no data on it unless you really like zeroes)

The drive was previously formatted with IDEMA LBA mode 3 (which is 4096B sectors with T10-PI protection). I'm trying mode 1 this time around (plain 4096B sectors) and will see what that yields. I doubt that is the problem though - isn't all that stuff handled on the drive itself?

is the disk firmware up to date?

Don't know. Would have to put them in a windows system or something to run the utils I think

you could probably pass them through to a bhyve vm temporarily

jbo: i realised what's going on with not being able to mail gerald@, it's because freebsd.org's mailer doesn't rewrite sender addresses for spf. i might ask postmaster@ about that...

lw i love freebsd lol

i feel pc runs smoother and faster

than linux

warsoul: did you fix your problem with hexchat?

yep

what irc client you use?

ircII-EPIC (irc/epic5 in ports)

lw heh