<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 4:57 PM Igor Semyonov <<a href="mailto:igor.semyonov42@gmail.com">igor.semyonov42@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">From what I understand, TrueNAS uses ZFS, not LVM.<div>You can, in fact, add a vdev to an existing zpool. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/8za4p1/adding_vdevs_to_pool_what_happens_to_the_existing/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/8za4p1/adding_vdevs_to_pool_what_happens_to_the_existing/</a></div><div><br></div><div>As for other options, any of the ones you mentioned should serve file as a NAS.</div><div>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.</div><div>If you want the option to set things up yourself and don't mind a bit more involvement, choose any distro.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 10:34 AM Dale <<a href="mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com" target="_blank">rdalek1967@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Howdy,<br> <br> I took a old hand me down puter and put TrueNAS and some hard drives in<br> it a good while back. Well, the drives are filling up. I wanted to add<br> another drive to the pool but it appears you can't do that. With LVM,<br> it is easily doable, in minutes. So, TrueNAS, while a neat tool, isn't<br> going to work for how I end up doing things. Time to get a better tool. <br> <br> I'm wanting to install something that I can use LVM on. It's something<br> I'm already familiar with and it will serve me very well. I'm thinking<br> about just installing a binary based OS that is lightweight. The old<br> computer isn't super powerful. It has 8GBs of memory and a 4 core CPU. <br> About 15 years old I think. I don't think I'll even need a GUI really. <br> I figure I'll need NFS or something so I can mount it and LVM to manage<br> the drives and such. I'll also need support for encryption. I use<br> sys-fs/cryptsetup and whatever tools it depends on.<br> <br> Since some on this list have used other distros and know what they<br> support, what would you recommend? Ubuntu? Slack? I do want something<br> that is fairly well maintained and will be around for a long time. <br> While I could likely install something else and LVM still have my data,<br> I don't want to have to learn something only to switch and learn again. <br> If there is a distro that has a light GUI, that would be fine too. I<br> don't recall using a GUI to use LVM or encryption tho. Still, could<br> come in handy if it is really light. Odds are, I'll only start the GUI<br> if I need it. <br> <br> Thoughts? Alan, I bet you have some ideas. :/ LOL<br> <br> Thanks.<br> <br> Dale<br> <br> :-) :-) <br> <br> </blockquote></div> </blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>Hi Dale,</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, I have ideas, quite a few. <br></div><div><br></div><div>TrueNAS is FreeBSD+ZFS and it's totally what you want because ZFS is the shizz and fixes all problems using storage, I use it myself.</div><div>Of course you can add more drives, the command is "zpool add" and the GUI has all the right buttons.</div><div><br></div><div>NFS also works, you can use any old distro, they all have the tools. So Gentoo or Ubuntu-12.04 or current Fedora, whatever.</div><div>Do the usual - PV all the drives, add them to a VG and create an LV.</div><div>For encryption, you must decide if you want LVM to do it, or the filesystem - choice is yours.</div><div>I would advise not to put / in that VG. Rather boot off a small drive or USB stick then all your drives are a full PV</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Alan McKinnon<br>alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com</div></div>