FYI, new install of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 with docs, src, ports,, (basic standard full install) ended up using 2.5g HD space. The new installer defaults entire drive to / slice, in fact the entire installer is quite different that previous versions, much easier it seems. portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap upgrade (after that just 'portsnap fetch update' to get latest ports) whereis portupgrade cd /usr/ports make quicksearch name=portupgrade cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade; mak...

Overview of the nfs server options I choose See man exportfs and http:www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nfs.htm for NFS server option details. Also CentOS docs are great for NFS client/serve details http:www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-nfs.html secure server must be started by root because it will use ports lower than 1024 rw enable read and write sync data must be fully synced to disk, this prevents corruption if a server crashes no_wdelay I use this because my nfs re...