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Palladini - Sun, 2020/04/12 - 16:15
I have 4 Hard Dives plus a 500 GB SSD in my box I am running Turnky NAS on. the Program does not recognize my 4 4TB SAS Drives I have hooked to the SATA Ports on my MB.
How do I add those drives to the system, either as one big pool, or in a raid configuration.
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Hi there, so you're using the TurnKey FIleserver?!
Assuming that I'm right and you're using the TurnKey Fileserver appliance, then by default what you are seeing is expected behaviour. When installed to bare metal, TurnKey defaults to just using the boot drive.
If I recall correctly, you should be able to format and configure the additional drives within Webmin. But personally, I prefer the commandline. Having said that, rather than physically using the terminal on your fileserver, I suggest using SSH (I recommend PuTTY if you're on Windows; on Linux and Mac just use the built in command).
IMO the best way to have a big storage pool in Linux is via LVM (Logical Volume Manager). I won't go into details here, but essentially LVMs are a way to abstract the physical storage from the OS. With LVM there are 3 levels; PVs (physical volumes - usually complete disks, but can be individual partitions), VGs (volume groups, groups of PVs) and LVs (logical volumes - what the OS uses as it would a normal disk).
So I'll assume that you installed to a LVM when you installed from the ISO (it's the default option). So you should already have a VG called "turnkey". To double check, you can view the current PVs, VGs and LVs with the respective commands; "pvdisplay", "vgdisplay" and "lvdisplay". Here's the output from a VM I have installed (as you can see it has a 8GB vHDD):
Checking the current LVM set up
First check the PVs with "pvdisplay":
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