Re: Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-15 Thread Tom Horsley
I installed TrueNAS on an old system (along with a ton of disk space), it isn't as familiar as fedora, but it seems to work very well and you get used to it after a while. Been putting all my videos on it and running a Plex server in a jail. ___ users mai

Re: Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-15 Thread Peter Boy
> > After a painful experience of the lack of support of a Seagate Goflex Home > never updated from smb1, and finding the inadequacies of a WD MyCloudUltra2, > I'm ready to tackle configuring an older Dell system as the NAS for my > network. What do I need to configure besides NFS and smb serve

Re: Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/15/21 2:17 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: After a painful experience of the lack of support of a Seagate Goflex Home never updated from smb1, and finding the inadequacies of a WD MyCloudUltra2, I'm ready to tackle configuring an older Dell system as the NAS for my network. What do I n

Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-15 Thread Robert McBroom via users
After a painful experience of the lack of support of a Seagate Goflex Home never updated from smb1, and finding the inadequacies of a WD MyCloudUltra2, I'm ready to tackle configuring an older Dell system as the NAS for my network. What do I need to configure besides NFS and smb servers? _

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 14:56, Roger Heflin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:58 AM Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > > On 2021-03-15 at 12:26:49 Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > > I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets > > > > Maybe I should. The disk contains 8 months of backups that I

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 13:27, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:55:01 +0100 > Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > not > > easy to take apart - and not worth the bother :-( > > I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets, allowing > me to kill time by building things like this: > >

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Roger Heflin
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:58 AM Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > On 2021-03-15 at 12:26:49 Tom Horsley wrote: > > > I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets > > Maybe I should. The disk contains 8 months of backups that I can't get at and > has to be > demolished anyhow - or else my sl

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-15 at 12:26:49 Tom Horsley wrote: > I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets Maybe I should. The disk contains 8 months of backups that I can't get at and has to be demolished anyhow - or else my sledgehammer will do it :-) -- Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark F

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:55:01 +0100 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > not > easy to take apart - and not worth the bother :-( I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets, allowing me to kill time by building things like this: https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/solidoodle/solidoodle-kitchen-mag.h

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-15 at 01:51:21 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/14/21 9:36 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > On 2021-03-14 at 14:58:50 Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> On 3/14/21 2:44 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > >>> I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it > >>> succesfully for > >>> backup

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 05:49, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > smartctl doesn't work well on USB attached drives. > https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/USB explains the situation. Smartctl has worked well for me (several years ago) on drives from LaCie and G-Technologies. -- George N. White III _

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/14/21 9:36 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 2021-03-14 at 14:58:50 Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/14/21 2:44 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully for backups of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to mo

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/14/21 9:13 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: [erik@Erik-PC ~]$ sudo smartctl --all -T verypermissive -s on /dev/sdc smartctl 7.2 2021-01-17 r5171 [x86_64-linux-5.10.22-200.fc33.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Read Device Identity fai