Howdy, I took a old hand me down puter and put TrueNAS and some hard drives in it a good while back. Well, the drives are filling up. I wanted to add another drive to the pool but it appears you can't do that. With LVM, it is easily doable, in minutes. So, TrueNAS, while a neat tool, isn't going to work for how I end up doing things. Time to get a better tool.
I'm wanting to install something that I can use LVM on. It's something I'm already familiar with and it will serve me very well. I'm thinking about just installing a binary based OS that is lightweight. The old computer isn't super powerful. It has 8GBs of memory and a 4 core CPU. About 15 years old I think. I don't think I'll even need a GUI really. I figure I'll need NFS or something so I can mount it and LVM to manage the drives and such. I'll also need support for encryption. I use sys-fs/cryptsetup and whatever tools it depends on. Since some on this list have used other distros and know what they support, what would you recommend? Ubuntu? Slack? I do want something that is fairly well maintained and will be around for a long time. While I could likely install something else and LVM still have my data, I don't want to have to learn something only to switch and learn again. If there is a distro that has a light GUI, that would be fine too. I don't recall using a GUI to use LVM or encryption tho. Still, could come in handy if it is really light. Odds are, I'll only start the GUI if I need it. Thoughts? Alan, I bet you have some ideas. :/ LOL Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
