Share Multiple Disks As One?

Hi, just converted my old PC from a Windows file sever to using OpenMediaVault and must say I love it so far... so thanks for the great OS!

I have 8 HDDs in the PC (all NTFS) and would like to have 6 of them appear as one logical drive if possible... even if it is just read only, prefer that actually, then for writes I am fine using the individually shared disks. I have been out of the Linux world for a while now so thought I would ask before jumping into it :). And hoping maybe there is something I am missing and can do this right in the OpenMediaVault interface.

Thanks a lot for any help!

Thanks much for that info tekkbebe... unfortunately I have very little free space at the moment, but if no other solutions come up for keeping them as NTFS I will maybe try that in the future when I get a new drive. Don't like the idea of losing a drive loses all data though either, so might try and just work around having a bunch of separate shares.

In windows I used a 3rd party app to make a symbolic link of all the drives and then made that link my share, maybe I can do something like that and symlink all the drives over to one and then share. Not sure that I even need to do that with this NAS though, maybe separate shares will be just fine... need to play around with it some more I guess :).

Thanks again tekkbebe.

That sounds like exactly what I need to do... thanks once again tekkbebe!

So finally getting around to creating these symlinks... created them fine with the following commands:

cd /export/MediaJukebox
ln -s /export/DVD1/

And in the terminal session the links work just fine... but in my SMB/CIFS MediaJukebox share I see the linked folder as expected, but when trying to enter the folder/link it says:

Windows cannot access \\NAS\MovieJukebox\DVD1
You do not have permission to access \\NAS\MovieJukebox\DVD1. Contact your network administrator to request access.

I tried specifying "allow insecure wide links = yes" in the Extra Option for both the SMB/CIFS settings and the share settings... but that didn't seem to help.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Never mind, think I found the trick... needed "unix extensions = no" too.

Ended up with the following Extra Options then:

follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no

That being said, it is working for my SMB/CIFS shares, but not the NFS ones (links don't show at all)... hmm, now what options are needed for it...

Ahh, bummer... thanks for that info David.