Upgrading my nas from FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE to 11.2-RELEASE

FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE was released a few days ago. This means it’s time to upgrade the FreeBSD running on my nas.

For the most part, this was all what I did:

After it’s been upgraded, I also need to update the Zpool.

Let’s upgrade the zpool as suggested:

Next is to update the boot code. If for whatever reason you’re following this step to update zpool (zroot) on your FreeBSD, make sure you know what is your boot disk is. In my case, it’s not da0. To find out run the following command:

It’s ada4, and the partition the boot sits on is ada4p1.

To upgrade non-zroot zpool, just run zpool upgrade pool_name.

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