Sometimes you just want to have a removable USB drive that you can move easily between linux, MAC and/or Windows PCs. The easiest way is to use the Windows filesystems as there is compatibility (sometimes with a bit of config such as this) across the board. First install DOS file system tools… apt-get install dosfstools…
Continue reading →Since my NAS melted slightly (here) I decided to rethink my approach to storage on the device. I would always lean towards a RAID if I needed redundancy and I have used RAID5 successfully in the past. I had been using an LVM volume but when I came to replace my burnt disk, the LVM…
Continue reading →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:…
Continue reading →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…
Continue reading →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…
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