On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:33 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > I have two drives and it sees them as one larger drive. No RAID or > > > anything. At least not that I know of anyway. To be honest, I know > > > very little about RAID. Read threads on it but never used it. > > > > > > Basically, I took two drives, I think they are 8 and a 10TB but may be > > > something else, and it sees them as one 18TB or something like that. > > > I'm wanting to add a 6TB or something to that until I can get larger > > > drives, maybe a better plan too. > > > > OK, you chose striped. That gives more space but no redundancy. If > > one of those drives goes bad you probably lose everything. Better to > > choose mirrored if you want your data to be safe, assuming you don't > > have a second TrueNAS box or some way to back it up. > > > > Anyway, a simple NFS server with LVM sounds like it would make > > you happy, and happy is or should be what life is about, so go make > > yourself happy! ;-) > > > > But learn about and use RAID or you're dancing on the head of > > a pin for reliability. > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > If you say so. Sounds right. ;-) Those drives are my backup. Some > important things I have three copies of. Most stuff, my copies I work > with on my main rig and then the backup copy. Odds of both failing > should be small. After all, the drives spend most of their time > unplugged and locked in a fire safe. A couple really important things I > may not can replace, like family pictures, those I also have copies on > DVD or something. It's not 100% fool proof but it is better than > nothing at all. > > I hooked the drives back up. I'm going to try adding that drive again, > if I can figure out how it is done. I feel like I'm looking at the > option but don't know that is it. :/ > > Dale > > :-) :-)
You should be able to add a drive to an existing striped pool. IIRC, because I'm not using TrueNAS at this time, you want to look at your pool, then choose the three dots in the upper right. In a general Google search I would start with TrueNAS add drive to existing striped pool I see a number of reasonable looking pages but I've never used a striped pool so YMMV. As for the Ubuntu Server / LVM question, why do you want to partition a storage pool? Why not just leave it as one large drive, place different data in different directories, and then mount the directories over NFS as needed? You can still do backups of each directory and you have no restrictions on data other than running out of disk space. Good luck, Mark
