Posts by MioCuggino

Hi there!

I've buyed a Raspberry Pi4 to make a portable "mini" nas to download things, as a file storage and to enjoy films and music on the go.

All is working good (more or less ) but I'm severely undecided on what filesystem I should use on the related attached external hard disk (A simple 256GB mechanical hard drive. Is what I have now).

The obvious choice should be EXT4, but I would love to occasionally use my hard drive on Windows (to rapidly copy big files through USB3, or to easily copy all files to another disk if I want use a bigger disk in the future), thus I'm not sure if another option would worth the hassle and the theorically loss in speed or features.

Saying that, the obvious choice would be NTFS, but I've understood that this way I will lost ACL on folders but also no journaling is available, and I've read that is MUCH slower than Ext4.

The next option is EXFAT, but is hasn't journaling of other cool things available on Ext4 and also I can't find no truly information on how much slower it is against the previously named options.

Also, I don't know how hard and compatible are EXT4 alternative to set up on my Pi4 (NTFS and EXFAT are supported out of the box? They are an hassle to set up?)

Ok, I could simply give up to put my HD on windows, but....

Someone has some advice to tell regarding this topic? What should I do to have as little trouble as possible?

Hi!

Over time I've built my x86 homemade NAS with openmediavault 4, and I've reached a pretty good overall state with that!

I usually download and transfer a lot of files on that, especially over my several external Hard drives. I mounted my shares through SMB, and is everything working pretty well (copy and pasting files is fast and reliable)

And here is where it come my issues: when I plug in my USB memories peripherals, I have to mount them manually through the OMV webinterface, then I have to move the files manually through shell to the external hard disk (that obviously can't be put on a 'Shared folder' through the OMV interface).

This is pretty horrible, and is getting me very pissed every time I have to copy an serious amount of files in and out my NAS. Is basically my only flaws against a fantastic project I (or I shall say we?) made.

I've searched on the forum for advices, but I've only found an useful thread that talk about a 'usbmount package', but I can't find it on 'Plugins' neither anywhere else.

There is a way to overcome this issue?

There is a way to 'automount' USB hard drives ( and consequently share them automatically over SMB)?

Hi!

I'm happy with my OMV mini-nas, and all is working like I want (shared folders, on the external hard disk, Wake-on-wan, deluge, users ecc) even thanks to another question I've make on this forum (regarding Samba).

Now all is fine tuned, and I've a fear: redo everything from scratch!

I have an mSata SSD 32gb for the OS and a 4TB hard drive for data.

I would very like to backup the SSD so, in case of serious fuck-up or if it fail someday, I could easily "replace" it and retain all my configs.

With Windows I use a tool called Macrium Reflect: the free edition is perfect, and allow me to make a "snapshot" (even when the PC is running), save it on an external USB Hard disk and (with the aid of an Bootable USB with macrium software) I can easily restore that backup from the external hard drive directly on the disk, thus allowing me to "restore" any previous status with only 5 minutes.

I'm newbie with linux, and I don't know it a similar mechanism/tool exist on Linux. Also I saw that OMV has a "backup" plugin, but I didn't found enough information on what it is (I didn't downloaded it jet).

I know that a tool called CloneZilla could do the work, but I would really prefer to ask before messing it!

Anyone has some suggestions on how I can make a snapshot of my OMV Drive?

Sorry for the late reply!

I deleted every user and shared folder, re-created all from scratch and this time I used ACL instead Permissions.

I choose to do a "master folder" approach and hide the folder that can't be used by some users and I must to say the it work PERFECTLY!

I had to fiddle around a bit but now is working good: I can restrict access to "private" folder to users or to groups!

About the discovery service: it is online but the server doesn't show up through the 'Network Explorer'.
Isn't a top priority issues, however (I can access it through fixed IP or through writing 'omv.mshome.net' into Explorer address path), so...who cares

Maybe is better this way, after all.

Thanks for the help, especially because you had the patience to build up a tutorial with screenshots

Hi!

Its my first message on this forum, and is only 2 weeks that I've built with love my home media center!

I've proceeded slowly and steady, but I'm facing a big issue that I didn't resolved after days, so I must ask to someone that know this better than me.

The situation is this:

I want to share some folders that are on the OMV External Hard Drive. These folders are the classic folders you can image (Media\,Projects\,Software\, ecc).

Now: I want to set that only a subset of all users can access ALL the folders: some other users could only access one or two folder. This could be easily done using the "Privileges" button" on the 'User' control panel.

The issue is this: I want to access these folder from Windows.

Unfortunately (for some reason) the server doesn't show up from the "Network" devices on Explorer, so the only way to have access to these folder is to "mount" single folders through the "Add network share" option in "My Computer" screen. This mean that I have to create an entry for EACH folder I want to share. This is really annoying because I have 7-8 folders, and they fill the whole page. Also, I have to access my server from outside home, so I have to re-create all entries another time.

So I had a good idea: create a "root" shared folder, that point to "/" (The whole hard drive), so I have to mount only one folder to have access to the whole hard drive.

But then I'm facing a "permissions hell", because with users with 'limited privileges' I can only:

- Deny the access to "root" folder -> User now can't access ANY folder on disk (even if I say that they can use a subset of folders).

- Allow the access to "root" folder -> They can see everything, and is wrong.

How I can solve this situation?