WSL 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.

How to Develop Locally in Drupal and Host Static Files on your Website

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:41:16 -0700

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Say you have an old website on Drupal 7 with plugins that don’t work with the latest versions of Drupal. You now cannot migrate over to Drupal 9 or 10 without doing a lot of manual work and/or losing the functionality of your current plugins. If your requirements are still fulfilled by the old Drupal 7 website, there’s a solution to keep using it.

Install GRAV on WSL based off Ubuntu

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:51:24 -0800

Install WSL (powershell command as admin “wsl –login”)

Inside WSL upon installation

install php
download latest version of grav with admin console, expand in your non-root user account
CD to the grav directory
Run “php -S localhost:8000 system/router.php”
Access Grav at localhost:8000/admin on the browser of your windows machine
install any component that Grav complains about (generally PHP libraries)
your site is at localhost:8000

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WSL on SANJAY REGMI

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

How to Develop Locally in Drupal and Host Static Files on your Website

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Install GRAV on WSL based off Ubuntu

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