On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 7:34 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Howdy, > > I took a old hand me down puter and put TrueNAS and some hard drives in > it a good while back. Well, the drives are filling up. I wanted to add > another drive to the pool but it appears you can't do that. With LVM, > it is easily doable, in minutes. So, TrueNAS, while a neat tool, isn't > going to work for how I end up doing things. Time to get a better tool. > > I'm wanting to install something that I can use LVM on. It's something > I'm already familiar with and it will serve me very well. I'm thinking > about just installing a binary based OS that is lightweight. The old > computer isn't super powerful. It has 8GBs of memory and a 4 core CPU. > About 15 years old I think. I don't think I'll even need a GUI really. > I figure I'll need NFS or something so I can mount it and LVM to manage > the drives and such. I'll also need support for encryption. I use > sys-fs/cryptsetup and whatever tools it depends on. > > Since some on this list have used other distros and know what they > support, what would you recommend? Ubuntu? Slack? I do want something > that is fairly well maintained and will be around for a long time. > While I could likely install something else and LVM still have my data, > I don't want to have to learn something only to switch and learn again. > If there is a distro that has a light GUI, that would be fine too. I > don't recall using a GUI to use LVM or encryption tho. Still, could > come in handy if it is really light. Odds are, I'll only start the GUI > if I need it. > > Thoughts? Alan, I bet you have some ideas. :/ LOL > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
With TrueNAS I believe you can add new disks to an existing pool, but if your pool was RAID1 I think you're just getting more RAID1, not more space. The more typical TrueNAS disk change is to rotate to a larger drive, where you decommission a 3TB drive, physically remove it, add a new 6TB drive, then go through the same process for your second/third/fourth drives. That process grows your space. If you're looking for a bog simple NFS server try Ubuntu Server. It will take you maybe 20 minutes to install and after adding the NFS stuff should do everything you want. I do that for my Plex and NFS needs. Ubuntu server does not include X but you can add it later if you want. Updating Ubuntu is more or less a two command process: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade The first command where it understands what's new, and the second where it installs it. kernel updates typically add a new kernel but keep the current kernel as a fallback in case something goes wrong. Adding a new program is generally a one command process, such as: sudo apt install nfs-kernel-server See this page for instructions on getting NFS installed and working: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-nfs NOTE: Ubuntu is systemd so you may or may not like that Good luck whatever you do. Cheers, Mark
