This one is fairly straight forward. This is what you need to do if your boot partition should fail and you need to remount  the LVM logical partition in a new machine or once you’ve re-installed Ubuntu on a new boot partition.Make sure the HDDs are recognised. fdisk –lu Scan all disks for physical volumes:…

While we are on the subject of setting up LVMs and hard drives (see previous post), I thought I’d continue with how to upgrade your NAS by replacing one hard drive with another of a bigger size.Note that you will need to do this while your logical partition has free space equal (or greater) than…

In my previous NAS I ran a RAID 5 array for redundancy (see post here for more details on my previous build). However the whole point of setting up this NAS was to make use of a load of different size spare/old drives I had lying about. Given that my disks are of varying sizes a…