Homelab

FreeBSD 15 is out! You can read the release notes here! I put the ones that sounded juicy to me. For my simple home use. The adduser(8) utility, used by bsdinstall(8), will now create a ZFS dataset for a new user’s home directory if the parent directory resides on a ZFS dataset. A command-line option is available to disable use of a separate dataset. ZFS encryption is also available. 516009ce8d38 The jail(8) command now supports the zfs.dataset parameter to attach a list of ZFS datasets to a jail. e0dfe185cbca ...

Many years ago I changed the default IPMI password for my TrueNAS mini from iXsystems. They no longer are developing the FreeBSD based version TrueNAS Core. I decided to switch to vanilla FreeBSD. I ended up finding in the Wiki linked below. You have to load the IPMI kernel module manually! That’s why I enjoy running the system vanilla bare metal. It only loads the minimum. After I loaded the module I was able to reset the password with ipmitool. You can see it listed as number 13 below. ...