TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system
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How to restore ntfs partition table in freebsd
I accidentally deleted my partition table on my old disk through:
gpart delete -i ada3
gpart destory ada3
Which contains all files on it. How can restore these data on this disk?
I tried testdisk, but the drive is not showing up in the list.…

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Replacing a HDD in FreeNAS
I got a message that said one of my hard drive was degraded and im trying to figure out how to check which drive it is. I did zpool status and I got this
zpool status
pool: BiggyD
state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices could not be opened.…

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FreeNAS is getting Uncorrectable parity/CRC errors
In my FreeNAS 9.3 installation I am getting more and more Uncorrectable parity/CRC errors (like these here:
May 15 13:39:41 freenas (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): READ_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 60 00 b8 0e 18 40 91 00 00 01 00 00
May 15 13:39:41 freenas…

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SAMBA/LDAP authentication failed in FreeNAS
I got a FreeNAS server and I am trying to share folders using SAMBA. My users are in an OpenLDAP server. The OpenLDAP has the samba.schema loaded. I checked the sambaSID in my FreeNAS and it is the same I got in my LDAP. But when I connect a client…

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FreeBSD/FreeNAS: How to change group for multiple users?
I need to change group membership for a bunch of users.
How do I
list all users?
change multiple users to nogroup primary group?
add secondary/auxiliary groups to multiple users?
Basically I need to change all the users that are currently in the…

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Formatting a FreeNAS ZFS volume as ext4 for Linux use?
I've setup a FreeNAS server with 6x 3TB drives for use as a backup NAS via iSCSI for a Linux server (Ubuntu 12.04). The FreeNAS setup was pretty straightforward and the logical step seemed to be to create a ZFS volume from the 3TB drives so I went…

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FreeNAS: terrible FTP speeds ... what can we do?
We are running FreeNAS 8.2.0 (specs below), and getting extremely slow FTP performance.
We have a 100/70mbps FIOS connection, yet FTP (remote) from the FreeNAS is never more than about 5mbps.
We tested FTP from a Mac as a server, and got around…

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Network Performance / SMB-CIFS / Guidance
I'm an IT professional working out of my home office. I'm having some performance problems (NAS file copies) which I'm trying to isolate, using iperf. My question is on iperf.
Infrastructure - Gigabit switches (Netgear), not crossing switches. All…

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FreeNAS: Why do usernames and passwords have to match the client system?
I'm transitioning from a ReadyNAS server to a FreeNAS server. On our current ReadyNAS, we have one user account that every person in our office can use to access the server. Everyone has a unique username/password on their PC.
According to the…

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2 drive failures in zpool raid
I have a question if I'm going to be able to restore this partition if I order replacement drives. zpool clear didn't seem to do anything.
zpool status Partition1 …

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HP ProLiant DL380 added disks, but FreeNAS doesn't detect them
I have a HP ProLiant DL380 server and just inserted some extra disks (everything is hot swap), but the server doesn't seem to detect them. I tried camcontrol rescan all, but to no avail, it is just as if the disks aren't there at all.
No lights go…

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Can the Dell PowerEdge T320 boot from a USB stick in hard drive emulation mode?
I am trying to install FreeNAS on a Dell PowerEdge T320. I've followed the instructions here (http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Burning_an_IMG_File) to write the .img file to four different USB sticks with dd if=FreeNAS-9.2.1.5-RELEASE-x64.img…

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FreeNAS: "/var: write failed, filesystem is full"
Upon logging into our FreeNAS via shell, it says
/var: write failed, filesystem is full
So I did
> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ufs/FreeNASs2a 927M 358M 494M 42% /
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freenas zfs read performance sucks .. why?
I just set up a freenas zfs raid-z2 with 4 drives sata enterprise drives and doing some performance tests. Right now I'm pushing and pulling linux images into the storage. My notebook has a samsung 840pro ssd with 400MB/s local read write speed.…

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Use FreeNAS server as external drive with USB 3
This might be a weird question. Is it possible to connect a FreeNAS server to a computer with USB 3 and use the NAS as a high-throughput external drive? We would want this sometimes to not be capped by the GB ethernet limit.

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