Computers-freebsd-helpful
Computers-freebsd-helpful
From Hugme.org
- sysctl hw.model # CPU model
- sysctl hw # Gives a lot of hardware information
- sysctl vm # Memory usage
- dmesg | grep "real mem" # Hardware memory
- sysctl -a | grep mem # Kernel memory settings and info
- sysctl dev # Configured devices
- pciconf -l -cv # Show PCI devices
- usbdevs -v # Show USB devices
- atacontrol list # Show ATA devices
- camcontrol devlist -v # Show SCSI devices
Keeping up to date
- This will upgrade the entire operating system to the version you specify
- freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade
- upgrade to the newest patch release
- freebsd-update fetch
- freebsd-update install
- Update your ports collection
- portsnap fetch update
- portsnap extract
- Update and patch the ports you have already installed. This will require you install ports-mgmt/portupgrade