Method 4
Corrected on Aug. 22. 2012
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Thanks a seidler2547. Efectivily is posible to use sda3 partition on OMV only formating it.
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We start from an OMV system running and installed on a hard drive that it could be /dev/sda and we want to use part of it as a aditional data storage unit for the system.
We stop orderly OMV, and with "gparted live" CD or USB (@ http://www.sourceforge.net
1) reduce the size of the partition /dev/sda1 (system partition) to a reasonable size, eg 8 GiB
2) extend the size of the primary partition /dev/sda2 to full disk size.
3) move the extended partition for swap, /dev/sda5 contained in the primary /dev/sda2, from the end, to the beginning of the /dev/sda2
4) reduce the size of the primary partition /dev/sda2 just to the size of the extended partition /dev/sda5
5) create a new partition with free disk size /dev/sda3
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6) format /dev/sda3 with the type ext4
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We stop orderly gparted.
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We start again OMV and from the CLI we type:
and already, in "OMV web gui: raid" we find a raid like this:
openmediavault:100, /dev/md127, clean, linear, on /dev/sda3
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We start again OMV and in the web gui we can look
storage:filesystems we find a line like this:
device /dev/sda3 filesystem ext4 Mounted no
we mount the device and wala....
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Now, we can build on it shared folders and so on, all that we want and ......
Naturally, this configuration persists after stopping and starting the system
PpFdez