Space Needed for OMV5

Guys you are great.

I'll do my best to configure this server properly. Thanks for the advices!!

Quick update: the "new" hardware arrived surprisly fast, so yesterday i gave a try and..

the "server" is reborn, and now i'll start to work on it.

P.S. i encountered another difficulty trying to set up OMV5 in virtualbox on my linux laptop...

it completely freeze the host, i don't understand why.

so i'm "stuck" with my windows desktop for the "experiments" with OMV... but this is another story!

I have a 32GB sandisk flair usb 3.0 i want to use for OS installation.

In the vm i succesfully tried to remove the swap partition after setting the flash memory plugin.

Then i'll want to add a 500gb disk for torrent temp and docker installation.

And i'll need to transfer my 2TB disk...

Zitat von KM0201

Looks good (although honestly with 32gigs, you probably won't need to remove the swap, unless you have a ginormous amount of ram in that machine).

Not sure what your problem was with OMV and Vbox on a Linux host... I test OMV a ton in Vbox.

Since you install flash memory plugin, in the settings it said to comment swap partition in /etc/fstab. At this point it's only a waste of space to left it there unused (correct me if i'm wrong). I have 8gb of ram

The culprit of the proble with the Vm i think is to search into the "connection" area: i'm able to install OMV if i left it untouched: "NAT connection". But then i cannot obtain an IP, so i need to swithc to "bridged connection" and it hangs at the first attempt to reach the web: e.g. when downloading updates. The same happens if i switch to bridged mode during installation: after choose the atp server, it hangs...

So i'm "stuck" with my windows desktop as host (connected via ethernet cable).

I always have little time to spend for this hobby.. and now i don't have the "freedom" to use my notebook.... but i don't give up.

At the end i'll like to write a step-to-step guide to "properly" set up OMV5 with all of your advice, i think it will be useful for all the newbies like me.

Zitat von KM0201

Technically, yes it is a waste of space.. but the reality is, if you're using the OS as designed, then nothing is on the OS drive, except the OS. If the installer puts an 8gig swap on your flash drive, that is going to leave approx. 15gigs for your OS root partition. I'd challenge anyone with a properly configured system, to show they've filled a 15gig OS partition.

As for your vbox issue and the bridged connection.... Under bridged connection there should be a drop down box, depending on your machine, you may have multiple devices there... have you tried another device?

Ok, so deleting the swap partition is "optional", but i would like to have the "cleanest" system possible, so i think i'll definitely wipe that space out.

Now i'm trying to figure how to create a "space for docker". As i said, my main intent is to create a disk with the download folder for torrents and the configuration file for docker/portainer (and a unprotected folder to give access to my girlfriend to backup her files/documents). Nothing else.

I'll made some "experiments" trying to find a good not-too-bad solution to have a clean base to start with.

-Create a share with subfolders, then install docker in one of these subfolder i guess.

Hi,i think i reached a first goal: i create a user, a public share (i guess), installed docker/portainer on a data disk.
installed qbittorrent in docker and managed to download a manjaro iso.

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version: "2.1"
services:
  qbittorrent:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=100
      - TZ=Europe/Rome
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
    volumes:
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-92a2f17a-c3e9-4de0-b09a-bbf10f6988e5/appdata/qb/:/config
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-92a2f17a-c3e9-4de0-b09a-bbf10f6988e5/temp/tdownload/:/downloads
    ports:
      - 6881:6881
      - 6881:6881/udp
      - 8080:8080
    restart: unless-stopped

There's a log or something else i could provide you to check if i did a "proper" installation/setup?

Zitat von stormer

Hi all. I'm a long time lurker, but have recently registered into the forums.

I just want to add that I have done an installation on an old computer of mine, i3-2120, 4 GB RAM. The following drives are used

USB boot = sdb1 = 8 GB

Sata1 = sdc1 = 250 GB ssd

Sata2 = sda1 = 500 GB hard disk (temporary until my drives come in)

Initial installation on to sdb1 was 4GB + 4GB swap. I installed the Flash plugin and followed all the instructions, and deleted the swap file. I then removed the swap partition, and expanded the main partition to all the space. (Gparted-live) Currently the entire OMV installation on sdb1 is 3GiB and 3.67GiB available.

Sdc1 is where I have installed all the app configs. In OMV-extras, Docker was also installed to this drive. Containers are Portainer, Deluge, qBittorrent, Syncthing and Pi-hole (using a macvlan) I installed most of the containers using Stacks in Portainer. All containers are healthy and running. Pi-hole is blocking on the network. Syncthing does a backup of my important files from the PC, and then that data gets rsync-ed to the hard drive, sda1

Sda1 is the downloads drive. All Deluge and qBittorrent downloads go here. I'm using 2 different clients because one of them is the short term one, and the other is only for sharing things I want to constantly share (like distros).

Miscellaneous information : UPS is attached via USB, NUT plugin installed. USB backup plugin installed for auto backup of important documents every time a USB drive is attached. Symlinks plugin installed, as I don't want to keep using

/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-25d4aabc-d466-452b-45a6-e779123a6a55/config but rather symlink it to become /mnt/config

I hope my experience helps you with your decisions on your own install.

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Hi, you have a very nice installation of OMV!

I hope i'll manage to setup "an half" of the plugins you installed

Zitat von KM0201

I don't use Qbittorrent, but if you're downloading OK, it is probably OK...

That said...

Command line...

Code

docker logs -f qbittorrent

will show the log for the qbittorrent container... To exit back top prompt, Cntrl + C

If you're more the point and click type,

1. Log in to Portainer and go to your container listing

2. Under "Quick Actions" column, you'll see 4 icons.

3. The first one is "Logs", simply click the logs icon for Qbittorrent..

You can then scroll through the log, download it if necessary, etc.

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Many thanks, i think the plugin works without any issue, (unluckyli is only a VM, so i need to repeat all the steps to make it working on the real hardware).

Zitat von gderf

You can check the qbittorrent log file and see what's going on.

/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-92a2f17a-c3e9-4de0-b09a-bbf10f6988e5/appdata/qb/qBittorrent/data/logs/qbittorrent.log

In case you are new to torrenting in general and don't already know this, your public IP address will be visible to anyone in the swarms you join.

Yeah.... i know..
I'm trying to evaluate a good VPN, and how to setup in OMV if it's possible. Do you use any?

Hi, today i started to work, play with the "real" hardware. I tried a couple of HDD i have laying around to test noise and i started to configure a shared folder and installed docker on the hard disk.

One thing i can't recall is how to set up docker; i try to explain: i wanted to install the qbittorrent/server but i don't remember how to setup the "config" and the "download" folder....
I need to create them before attempting to configure the server or these folders where created by docker itself?

it passed a lot of time and i don't remember which guides/tutorials i followed