Rebuilding the NAS, Part I
If you follow this blog (it's ok if you don't), you may be aware that a couple of years back I decided to build my own NAS. I won't go into the details of what drove me to build it myself (you can read more...
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Growing a RAID5 array (with LVM) online with MDADM
Trawling through the web I've found a lot of information about growing RAID5 arrays, and some sparse information about growing EXT4 partitions. The only problem is they did not appear in the same spots, making this procedure a bit of a guessing game. I recently...
Extending your homebrew NAS
Today, courtesy of @pedrovanzella, I was introduced to CouchPotato, a little project started by a dev from the SABnzbd+ forums. What it does, is magic. Well, in reality it’s a bit less than that. If you’ve been following closely, you know that I...
The Big Little NAS, Pt 2
If you missed part 1, go here. Broadcatching ? When I started building the server, I was (and still am) a fan of torrents. Using sites like ezrss.it, I could then automate the downloading of torrents with a simple RSS downloader script. Then I'd set...
The Big Little NAS, Pt 1
Preface This article/howto/recipe/whatever was inspired by a bunch of things: Me constantly running out of space for my media library. Me starting to use Apple’s Time Machine a lot. Drobo’s offerings. My desire to have a home server that could...