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While playing around with a Supermicro 6014P-T server I wanted to install a (Linux) CLI to manage the AOC-2020SA RAID controller.

Bad enough that Adaptec Storage Manager (ASM) included with the Supermicro driver disk does not include a CLI.
Let’s not argue about whom had the great idea to provide a GUI-only java-based management application to be used on 19″ 1U rackmount servers.
Of course I’d never run such a server headless or without X11 installed so why would I ever need a CLI!?
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FreeBSD’s ufs usually does an excellent job in preventing file system corruption. But even the best system happens to mess up once in a while.

One thing you may eventually stumble accross are so called mangled entries, which are usually not fixable with fsck and result in kernel panics upon access.
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