If you are installing OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi chances are you are running the operating system off an SD card. SD cards are great for read only access by they will quickly wear out and die if they get a lot of writes. OMV causes a lot of write operations when generating the graphics …
In an earlier article we installed OMV and did the most basic set up. In this article we’ll add a storage drive. This article assumes you have a Raspberry Pi 4 with OMV 6 installed and working correctly. We’ll be attaching a USB hard drive which has an NTFS partition on it. Attaching a Drive …
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OpenMediaVault (OMV) is an open source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. It ships as a distribution but you can also install just the packages if you have a suitable base system (Debian essentially) which is what we’ll be doing here. OMV has a web based interface that can be used to configure almost all aspects …
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Working on your Raspberry Pi from the inserted SD card is fine for some applications but if you want to store a significant amount of data or perform more intensive IO operations then you’re going to need to attach an external hard drive. Connecting a drive over USB3 should mean you get a decent throughput …
Docker has, for a lot of cases, become the go to way to install and run certain services. Docker is a container system which means it comes with all the advantages of containers such as ease of installation, resource management and security. Docker is also fairly low overhead so it’s possible to run a number …
In an earlier article I configured a Raspberry Pi to accept SSH logins using keys rather than passwords all the while working from a Windows 10 machine. In this article I’ll do the same but working from another Raspberry Pi machine. Although I’m using a Raspberry Pi here this process, or something very much like …
Configuring SSH Keys on Raspberry Pi from Raspberry Pi Read More »
This guide assumes you have a Raspberry Pi already installed e.g. you can log in and see either a command prompt or the desktop. This guide will make use of the command line. I’m setting up a headless server as I write this and working on a Windows 10 machine. All key generation and configuration …
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