>From what I understand, TrueNAS uses ZFS, not LVM. You can, in fact, add a vdev to an existing zpool. https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/8za4p1/adding_vdevs_to_pool_what_happens_to_the_existing/
As for other options, any of the ones you mentioned should serve file as a NAS. The ad#ntage of truenas is that it is built to be an appliance that you don't need to think about much once it's set up. If that's what you need, it's a good choice. If you want the option to set things up yourself and don't mind a bit more involvement, choose any distro. On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 10:34 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 > > :-) :-) > >
