Install small utilities

[Nassefar]

Dear community!

I have a rather large file system on my FreeNAS mounted on my Windows boxes. Some operations are rater ineffective to perform from Windows, for example unrar'ing large/many files, since data will be sent back and forth over the network. It will be a lot better with file manipulation locally on FreeNAS.

I am (also after reading the forums) not certain what is the best way to do this... plugin? Jails? I need the utilities to have full access to my files.

 

[danb35]

If you're running the current version of FreeNAS (9.10.1-U4), it includes mc, which should be able to handle a lot of your file manipulation tasks.

 

[Nassefar]

If you're running the current version of FreeNAS (9.10.1-U4), it includes mc, which should be able to handle a lot of your file manipulation tasks.

The utilities I want are pigz and par2tbb since I have many cores. Do you know if mc supports something like the ones mentioned?

 

[danb35]

That, I'm not sure. If it doesn't, creating a jail will give you a basic FreeBSD system, and you can install those utilities the same way you'd install anything else under FreeBSD.

 

[Nassefar]

The utilities I want are pigz and par2tbb since I have many cores. Do you know if mc supports something like the ones mentioned?

That, I'm not sure. If it doesn't, creating a jail will give you a basic FreeBSD system, and you can install those utilities the same way you'd install anything else under FreeBSD.

Hm. OK, thanks for the tip. How do I go about accessing all my files from within the jail?

 

[danb35]

http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/jails.html#add-storage