#bectl

Mikael Hanssonmikael@hachyderm.io
2025-07-10

#FreeBSD boot environments are great and all, but once theyโ€™ve served their purpose - i.e. you know that the computer works with its new base system, do yourself a favor and clean them out using the #bectl command.

I just freed up more than half of the total assigned disk space from a VM that had stale boot environments going back to late 2023.

vermadenvermaden
2025-07-08

New ๐—–๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—•๐—ฆ๐—— ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ธ๐—ถ๐˜ [Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit] article on the blog.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07

2025-07-08

New ๐—–๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—•๐—ฆ๐—— ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ธ๐—ถ๐˜ [Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit] article on the blog.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07

#verblog #beadm #bectl #devfs #diskinfo #free #freebsd #fstab #gstat #jails #linux #lsblk #sensors #sockstat #systat #tar #truss #truncate #zfs

2025-06-22

New ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—•๐—ฆ๐—— ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ธ๐—ด(๐Ÿด) ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ [FreeBSD Kernel Modules pkg(8) Repositories] article ready.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06

#freebsd #desktop #laptop #server #beadm #bectl #pkg #repos #kmod #kernel

vermadenvermaden
2025-06-22

New ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—•๐—ฆ๐—— ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ธ๐—ด(๐Ÿด) ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ [FreeBSD Kernel Modules pkg(8) Repositories] article ready.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06

2025-06-08
Thanks. I just #bectl activated my backup R142p3 boot enviroment and now I am fine. I am only using pkg though so I guess I will wait till pkg get built for R14.3. This probably is a good time for me to learn #FreeBSD #ports.
2023-11-17

Really good comment on #FreeBSD #Jails #ZFS #beadm #bectl #BE capabilities.

Compared to #Linux - not even the same league ... yet 'blind' industry 'sheep' just follow the 'market'.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

2020-02-12

New ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—•๐—ฆ๐—— ๐—˜๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฃ๐—•๐—จ๐—š article is available on the vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/02

#verblog #freebsd #enterprise #storage #zfs #beadm #bectl #linux #data #stratis #redhat #pbug #POLANDSTRONK #PBUG

2020-01-27

The latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ/๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿณ are now available.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/01

#vernews #verblog #news #freebsd #linux #openbsd #freenas #zfs #beadm #bectl #plex #ghostbsd #arm #sqlite #librem

0mp at FreeBSDmpts
2018-11-26

@zac -update(8) is the way to go. You may want to read about (or ) for smoother experience.

2018-11-15

Today I was honored to give ๐—ญ๐—™๐—ฆ ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ talk at the ๐—ก๐—Ÿ๐—จ๐—จ๐—š ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿด (@nluug).

Check PDF slides - is.gd/BECTL - available here.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/11

#verblog #NLUUG #bectl #beadm

0mp at FreeBSDmpts
2018-10-30

@worr Remember to create a new boot environment with or so that you can roll back everything if you are using .

2018-09-21

Added ๐—จ๐—ฃ๐——๐—”๐—ง๐—˜ ๐Ÿฎ to the ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ญ๐—™๐—ฆ ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น article about recently introduced ๐š‹๐šŽ๐šŒ๐š๐š• tool from FreeBSD base and its improvements in latest FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA6 version.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/08

#verblog #freebsd #beadm #bectl

2018-08-24

New ๐š‹๐šŽ๐šŒ๐š๐š• tool imported to #FreeBSD base as replacement for ๐š‹๐šŽ๐šŠ๐š๐š– tool.

I have made small comparison in ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ญ๐—™๐—ฆ ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น article.

The ๐š‹๐šŽ๐šŒ๐š๐š• is already available in 12.0-ALPHA2 image.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/08

#beadm #bectl #zfs

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