On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 09:51:38AM -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
In the meantime, a second Pi, a Pi3 running: bob@ns2:/usr/local/share/doc/db18 % uname -apKU FreeBSD ns2.zefox.net 14.4-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC arm64 aarch64 1404000 1404000 just reported: Checking setuid files and devices: find: /usr/local/share/doc/db18/api_reference: Input/output error
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The host is a microSD-based binary-only setup that hasn't been recently updated, so no recent writes that might have gone wrong. It hasn't been physically disturbed in at least a year.
That actually sounds like dirty power. In my office I have two UPS units, most of the computers run off these. They clean the power as well as ofc supply power in an outage. The pi3 running here (also a binary install, on 14.5-p2 I think) also a dns server (unbound in ports) is on one of the UPSes and it chugs along just fine with the three outages we had in the storms last week.It also has high uptimes, additionally /var/log gets mounted tmpfs to further preserve the microsd.
A rpi4 in another room, not on any UPS, running linux, lost its filesystem to the extent it wouldn't boot. Probably when the power went off on off on off on rapidly before full power loss, and also the surge when it came back.
In the meantime, I let badblocks (the RasPiOS version) run on the USB hard disk overnight. It generated no output, which I'm tempted to think means it found no errors worth reporting. In looking at the FreeBSD man page for badblocks it appears to be a clone of the Linux version, intended for use under Linux filechecking. Is it even meaningful to use badblocks FreeBSD?
for hd health, I find dd works best. Back up that you need from the disk then something like ' dd if=/dev/your_device_number of=/dev/your_device_number bs=4096 \ conv=sync,noerror status=progress' run it in a tmux session -- void<at>f-m.fm | GPG fingerprint: BD97 5B52 1B78 B7A9 AFFE 7DD4 FD32 D1F9 0814 DECD Please don't Cc: as I'm already subscribed to the list.
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