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After my initial success yesterday with pkgbasify, today, I hit a block. This was my fourth host conversion. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 The block There I was, minding my own business, when this jumped up and hit me. [root@tallboy:~] # sudo bectl create before-pkgbasify [root@tallboy:~] # uname -a FreeBSD tallboy.unixathome.org 15.0-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p10 GENERIC amd64 [root@tallboy:~] # fetch https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua pkgbasify.lua 21 kB 1910 kBps 00s [root@tallboy:~] # chmod +x ./pkgbasify.lua [root@tallboy:~] # ./pkgbasify.lua /var/empty is a readonly zfs filesystem. This will cause conversion to fail as pkg will be unable to set the time of /var/empty. Set readonly=off and run pkgbasify again. [root@tallboy:~] # So, what do we have here? [root@tallboy:~] # zfs list | grep /var/empty system/var/empty 96K 262G 96K /var/empty [root@tallboy:~] # zfs get readonly system/var/empty NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE…

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