• 2025/08/29: thunar seems to freeze when browsing folders related to this during file operations (possibly fuse related)

su -

geom disk list

gpart list 'da0'

pkg install 'fusefs-ntfs'

kldload 'fusefs'

mkdir -p '/mnt/USB1' && ntfs-3g -o 'rw,big_writes,uid=1001,gid=1001' '/dev/da0s1' '/mnt/USB1'

gio open '/mnt/USB1'

umount '/mnt/USB1'

kldunload 'fusefs'

usbconfig

usbconfig -d '/dev/ugen0.4' 'power_off'

• FreeBSD 14.3
• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/zfs/
• TODO: Check if auto-mounted on reboot for vsftpd

su -

geom disk list

gpart list

zpool create 'NAS' '/dev/da0'

zpool status 'NAS'

zpool import 'NAS'

su -

geom disk list

gpart list 'da1'

pkg install 'fusefs-ntfs'

kldload 'fusefs'

mkdir -p '/mnt/NAS2' && ntfs-3g -o 'ro' '/dev/da1p2' '/mnt/NAS2'

mkdir -p '/mnt/NAS2' && ntfs-3g -o 'ro' '/dev/da1s1' '/mnt/NAS2'

cp -R -L -p '/mnt/NAS2/'* '/NAS'

umount '/mnt/NAS2'

kldunload 'fusefs'

usbconfig

usbconfig -d '/dev/ugen1.5' 'power_off'

• vsftpd

chown -R 'espionage724':'espionage724' '/NAS'

chmod -R '774' '/NAS'

• NAS2 spare (wiped)
• Format NAS2 spare to NTFS
• Clone NAS main (ZFS) → NAS2 spare (NTFS)
• This formatted a 4TB drive with 2TB + rest split and isn't usable under Windows ¹⁾

su -

pkg install fusefs-ntfs rsync

kldload 'fusefs'

geom disk list

gpart destroy -F 'ada2' && dd if='/dev/zero' of='/dev/ada2' count='8096'

gpart create -s 'GPT' 'ada2'

gpart add -l 'NAS2' -t 'ms-basic-data' 'ada2'

NTFS_USE_UBLIO='0' mkntfs -Q -I -v '/dev/ada2'

ntfsfix '/dev/ada2'

mkdir -p '/mnt/NAS2' && ntfs-3g -o 'rw,big_writes,windows_names' '/dev/ada2' '/mnt/NAS2'

rsync --verbose --recursive --update --progress '/NAS/' '/mnt/NAS2/'

cp -R -v '/NAS/' '/mnt/NAS2/'

• TODO: misc

su -

kldload 'fusefs'

gpart list

mkdir -p '/mnt/NAS' && ntfs-3g -o 'rw,big_writes,windows_names' '/dev/da0p2' '/mnt/NAS'

gio open '/mnt/NAS'

sync && umount '/mnt/NAS'

pkill 'thunar'

• TODO: misc

su -

geom disk list

gpart destroy -F 'da0' && dd if='/dev/zero' of='/dev/da0' count='8096'

dmesg | grep 'ugen'

sync && usbconfig -d '/dev/ugen0.4' power_off

• NAS2 spare (GPT ext4 pre-formatted)
• Clone NAS2 spare (ext4) → NAS main (ZFS)

su -

pkg install fusefs-ext2 rsync

mkdir -p '/mnt/NAS2' && mount -t 'ext2fs' -o 'rw' '/dev/ada2p1' '/mnt/NAS2'

rsync --verbose --recursive --update --progress '/mnt/NAS2/' '/NAS/'