Category Archives: FreeBSD8

ZFS Cant rm: No space left on device

By jacob | Published: January 19, 2010
If you completely fill up a zfs pool, it wont let you delete files on it. What you CAN do, is pick a scapegoat file to wipe out or remove a snapshot. Then you will be able to use the rm command. what I did: # df -h Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on themirror       39G     39G      [...]
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FreeBSD error in /boot/loader.conf

By jacob | Published: December 23, 2009
While experimenting with ZFS in FreeBSD, I made some tweaks to the vk.kmem_size variable in /boot/loader.conf. when setting it like this: #/boot/loader.conf vm.kmem_size="1024" everything worked, but I wanted to see what would happen if i doubled it. Unfortunately, setting vm.kmem_size to 2048 kept the FreeBSD kernel from booting. At startup it would just do this: panic: kmem_suballoc: bad status [...]
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