November 2014 – prosoxi.com

How to extract files to another directory using ‘tar’ command?

To extract an archive to a directory different from the current, use the -C, or –directory, tar option, as in #tar -xf archive.tar -C /target/directory

FreeNAS failed to wipe: Operation not permitted

Quick Fix On step 3 be sure to replace ‘/dev/ada4′ with your drive reference. In the ‘view disks’ tab it will be the ‘name’ prepended with ‘/dev/’. 1. Login via SSH2. sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x103. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada4 bs=512 count=1 && dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada5 bs=512 count=14. Log into web interface and use “View Disks” to wipe the …

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