Before getting into how to change a user’s password on FreeBSD, let’s have a quick revision on how that can be done on a Linux system. As a user we can change the password by typing: Or with a root account, we can change/set the password for another user: How about a FreeBSD? It should be the same way as how it’s done on Linux right? Right? Well, not quite....
I love ZFS, but there is something that has annoyed me for quite sometimes – the zpool doesn’t get automatically mounted on boot. To work around this, I had to login as root and run: to import tank pool before I login with my normal user account. Well, I finally found a solution. This is what’s written on zfsonlinux/zfs WIFI about Fedora specifically: Systemd Update: When upgrading to the zfs-0.6.5.8 release it’s recommended that users manually reset the zfs systemd presets....
Fedora 25 has Wayland enabled by default. However, if your computer has a (good) Nvidia graphic card and want to make use of it, you’ll need to switch to Xorg and install the Nvidia proprietary driver. Note that only the Nvidia driver with the version newer than 375.20 works on Fedora 25. Ref: How do I install the Nvidia driver on Fedora 25?
After I had my Fedora 24 upgraded to 25 on my desktop, ZFS no longer worked. I tried to remove zfs package and reinstalled; it didn’t work. Here’s how I got it working after trying many things. There could be a different way to fix it, though. Let’s check the version of the kernel: Check if spl, zfs are already installed: Manually install spl, dkms: Load zfs module: Voilla, I got ZFS working again....
Let’s say I have a partition as /dev/sdc1 formatted using XFS file system, and I want to give a label to it as externo. Here is one way to do it: # xfs_admin -L externo /dev/sdc1 writing all SBs new label = "externo" To read the label: # xfs_admin -l /dev/sdc1 label = "externo" Reference: HowTo Rename a XFS-Filesystem (label it)