Linux on SANJAY REGMI

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

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:56:52 -0800

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.

Pxe Boot to Install Any Operating System the Quickest Way

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:18:06 -0800

If your (old) machine doesn’t have a CD ROM drive or does not boot from USB, PXE boot to re-install a new operating system is the best option if you do not want to buy any more hardware to solve the situation. In the past, setting up a PXE server was a hassle. The internet is littered with linux configurations on tftp server. But if all you want to do is to boot your machine and autoload the ISO, here’s the fastest way with minimal fuss.

Split Windows in Text Mode in Freebsd and Linux

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 13:55:36 -0800

tmux is a beautiful console program that allows you to split your windows. Very handy with today’s large screens.

run tmux
CTRL + B “ for horizontal split
CTRL + B % for vertical split
CTRL + B o to move from one window to another
a cheatsheet lives at https://tmuxcheatsheet.com

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