Boot Environment in pfSense CE
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I am in process of migrating to FreeBSD 14.2 with Plasma 6 DE. During this process I have discover that "Boot Environment" (bectl) comes as standard with OS. Just to check if pfSense CE has that too I installed CE in Vurtual Box and yes it does have Boot Environment. Just need to, after boot, get to Shell (CLI). Type "bectl" to see all the options. It is true that CE does not have this option in GUI but it is available at CLI.
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@andrzejls Back when BE came out I recall some Netgate staff posts talking about it. I don’t know that it is used for say the fast updates (the reboot). But it’s there.
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@andrzejls It’s actually one of the cool little advantages of FreeBSD-based systems in general: powerful system tools baked into the OS, whether or not the GUI makes use of them.
Are you planning to make snapshots before major pfSense updates too? -
@LukasInCloud
I run pfSense+ as my firewall and, yes, I create new BE copy after every major change and switch to it as WIP. I also have a computer running FreeBSD 14.2 with KDE Plasma 6 DE. I create new BE copy in CLI.
