freebsd-update

I just found out that FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE will be end-of-life support within 1 month time from now. It’s time to upgrade FreeBSD on one of nas boxes to 14.0-RELEASE. The following is to capture the steps used to perform the upgrade. It’s similar to my old post. SSH into the server, and run tmux or screen. You really don’t want to lose SSH connection during the upgrade. $ ssh kenno@nas2 $ tmux Check the current running version of FreeBSD: root@nas2:~ # freebsd-version 13....

I feel upgrading FreeBSD from 13.0 to 13.1 is so minor that it might not worth a blog post. The thing is, I just did this upgrade on one of my 2 nas servers a month ago, and now I forgot how to do this already. This post should be short, and I will include the reference(s) at the end if you’d like to learn more about this update process....

FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE was released today, and that means it’s time to upgrade 2 of FreeBSD 11.2 machines to this latest version. One of my FreeBSD boxes is a desktop used at work, and the upgrade went well without any issues. In this post, I’m going to document how the upgrade is done on my nas server at home. First ensure that the FreeBSD is up to date: root@nas:~ # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped Looking up update....

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: # freebsd-update -r 11.2-RELEASE upgrade # freebsd-update install # reboot # freebsd-update install After it’s been upgraded, I also need to update the Zpool. root@nas:~ # zpool status pool: zroot state: ONLINE status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool....