Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit

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thedaemon@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You forgot to post any content on this.

Yep - I fucked up - fortunately thatsit@sh.itjust.work fixed that in comment below :)

thatsit@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hi, if you don't mind I add the original link because I think you forgot it in your post:
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/crucial-freebsd-toolkit

I am a big fan of lsblk, naturally it is installed on every freebsd box, you did a good job with this tool ;-)
Very informative blog post, thank you.

vermaden@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Thanks :)

pfr@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Hi Vermaden, great to see you here.

I remember reading about the lsblk.sh some time ago and tried testing it on NetBSD. I ran into some errors, which I can't remember right now. Will test it again and post the output here later.

vermaden@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Hi and thanks for testing it on NetBSD - let me know how it went - we can add that to my repo and I can 'maintain' lsblk(8) that will both for FreeBSD and NetBSD :)

pfr@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y (6 replies)

This is what I get on NetBSD 10.1 STABLE

http://0x0.st/8DJP.png

Doesn't look like glabel is available on NetBSD

vermaden@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Also ... is there some gpart(8) FreeBSD equivalent on NetBSD?

vermaden@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Doesn’t look like glabel is available on NetBSD

Is there some alternative command for labels on NetBSD?

pfr@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

gpt show sd0 and gpt show -l sd0 will show partition labels (if using GPT)

Could also use dkctl sd0 listwedges to show wedge names..

I'll have a little play and see what might work best

vermaden@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I would love to sit down on this and just port it to NetBSD ... but this month time is my 'valuable' thing - and I need to provide some things that I need to do for a living - please try and share what you found to work - I would really like to make lsblk(8) also work on NetBSD - as if FreeBSD would not exist - the NetBSD UNIX is the system I would be using instead :)

pfr@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah, I looked deeper into it and there's just too many differences between each system to make a completely portable *BSD script. Well, is out of scope for my skills at least.

I whipped up a quick and dirty script that sort of emulates lsblk on NetBSD..

Not my finest, but it works on my machine

NetBSD-lsblk.sh

vermaden@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Thanks - I tried it under NetBSD in FreeBSD Bhyve VM - but no luck for me:

netbsd# uname -prsm
NetBSD 10.1 amd64 x86_64

netbsd# ./lsblk.NetBSD
DEV      LABEL        FS     SIZE   USED USE% MOUNT
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disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device