Mindriot
(Duncan Feeley)
August 13, 2020, 1:53pm
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Hi folks, first post.
Moved a homeserver over from clearos. Been a clearos user for some time but not liking the way its going.
Just installed latest version but not at server right now for version sorry.
Simple question i hope.
Installed with 2x raid 1 arrays. One for /home and one for /var.
In retrospect i would have rather just mapped /ibay on the raid 1 not the whole /var
I realise i could just reinstall but its a long process, is there a way to do it easily via ssh.
I was never the best and im very rusty!
If so could i please request a breakdown of process/command please?
Rest of structure is on a 120gb samsung ssd for boot etc, looking th have it back to default location.
stephdl
(Stéphane de Labrusse)
August 13, 2020, 1:57pm
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Mindriot:
One for /home
not really used on NS, /var makes more sense
stephdl
(Stéphane de Labrusse)
August 13, 2020, 1:58pm
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the /etc/fstab
is the place where you mount at the boot a partition under linux
Mindriot
(Duncan Feeley)
August 13, 2020, 1:59pm
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Been used to clearos too long, does nethserver change users personal folders from the usual convention?
Got 4 drives, might as well use em, suggestions other than ibay on raid 10?
stephdl
(Stéphane de Labrusse)
August 13, 2020, 2:01pm
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/var/lib/nethserver/home
is the real home AFAIK
In general we store a lot of stuffs in /var/lib/nethserver
stephdl
(Stéphane de Labrusse)
August 13, 2020, 2:04pm
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I would use proxmox in first and use Nethserver as a VM, else yes mount the whole /var to your 4 disks array. However a SSD to boot a server, I am not sure, my uptime is really long, I rarely never restart my server.
[root@web ~]# uptime
16:06:12 up 203 days, 15:16, 1 user, load average: 0.55, 0.73, 0.85
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Mindriot
(Duncan Feeley)
August 13, 2020, 2:04pm
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Ah, i see.
My old setup was the equivalent of var (flexshare) and the home folders on raid with a spindown timer for saving the drives/power. Idea being system ran but drives only spun up on activity.
Looking do do similar again if possible.
Mindriot
(Duncan Feeley)
August 13, 2020, 2:15pm
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Out of touch ill look at proxmox, using server as gateway multiple nics including pppoe wan to router, always thought gateway and firewall wasnt wise in a virtual environment, but im out of touch perhaps?
Prefer to keep it as simple as possible for home
stephdl
(Stéphane de Labrusse)
August 13, 2020, 2:46pm
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firewall are now on virtual instance
You could use nethserver with a bare server, but you cannot revert a change, you cannot grow your hard drive like this, you have one instance to run all your services, you cannot help the development by using nethserver VM to test the code.
I saw a lot of rooms for proxmox.
@Mindriot
Hi Duncan
Here’s an example of what Stephane is talking about:
This is a friends home server, running on Proxmox. The hardware is a HP Proliant Microserver Gen8. 2 Mirrored 2 TB disks in RAID1. 16 GB RAM.
Everything except for a Backup NAS is running virtual in Proxmox.
NethServer, OPNsense Firewall and a Windows “Admin” PC for RDP access.
If Proxmox needs a reboot (Plenty of updates, but reboot only maybe once a year!), the system is online and accessable with VPN in around 5 minutes…
This runs extremly stable.
For my commercial clients, I do use a seperate Hardware Firewall (Also OPNsense), but here, where space and budget are restrained…
My 2 cents
Andy