Useful FreeBSD commands

FreeBSD Commands

* Installing software
	* Set up ports collection
		portsnap fetch && portsnap extract
	* Updating ports collection
		portsnap fetch && portsnap update
	* Remove port
		pkg_delete {}
	* Upgrading with portupgrade
		# set up
		cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
		make install clean
		# perform upgrade of all packages
		portupgrade -a

* List all hard drives
	camcontrol devlist

* Spin down drives if idle
	camcontrol standby <drive> -t <seconds>

* Get partition information
	fdisk <device>

* Mount all partitions from /etc/fstab
	mount -a

* Import ZFS pool (from old installation or other machine)
	zpool import
	zpool import -f <poolname>

* Activate NFS exports
	echo 'nfs_server_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

* Share ZFS pool via NFS
	zfs share <poolname>

* Reload NFS exports
	/etc/rc.d/mountd reload

* ZFS pool status
	zpool status

* Show NFS exports
	showmount -e

* Show system time/date
	date

* Restart networking
	/etc/rc.d/netif restart && /etc/rc.d/routing restart

* Check RAM for ECC
	dmidecode -t memory