Freebsd-14.x

Fix Upgrade Issues After Using Pkgbase on FreeBSD 15.x

3 February 2026·192 words·1 min

Technology Pkgbase FreeBSD Freebsd-15.x Freebsd-14.x

I recently upgraded my nas from 14.x to 15-RELEASE and then converted to pkgbase because I just loved the idea of being able to do pkg update and pkg upgrade for all upgrades moving forward. After the upgrade, the version I was on was 15.RELEASE-p1. After about a month or so, when I noticed p2 was out, I ran pkg update and pkg upgrade, it still kept me at p1. Investigating, I figured when I ran the lua based script to upgrade to pkgbase, it didn’t (or I forgot) to say yes for FreeBSD base repository. If you’re like me, here’s the instructions to fix it quickly.

Fastest Way to Copy Ext4 Formatted Data to FreeBSD Using WSL2 as an Intermediary

25 January 2026·588 words·3 mins

Technology Ext4 Linux Lklfuse Fusefs-Lkl WSL WSL2 FreeBSD Freebsd-14.x Rsync Usb-Disk

I run immich on a very old dell laptop with 100mbps ethernet with USB connected disks for data. The disks are formatted ext4 and the dell runs fedora. (Immich doesn’t run on FreeBSD yet. :( ). When the disk was full, I wanted to use my FreeBSD server as the data drive over NFS. And retire the USB disks. This required copying about 500GB of data from the USB disk to my FreeBSD server before I could switch over.

How to Enable Sending Email From Your FreeBSD Machine Using Dragonfly Mail Agent (DMA)

22 December 2025·365 words·2 mins

Technology FreeBSD Dma Freebsd-Mail Gmail Freebsd-14.x Freebsd-15.x Freebsd-Setup Dragonfly-Mta Dragonfly-Freebsd Email Freebsd-Email

After you’ve set up your FreeBSD box, having the box email you for all sorts of reports, cron updates etc is really useful. You don’t have to login to the machine to see them, you can get them in your email. With DragonFly Mail Agent, the setting of such an email system is quick and easy. Here’s the instructions: