Comments on: FreeNAS Tutorial for Windows Users – Part 6 – Adding a Drive

By: marvin

marvin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:50:43 +0000

i think i might have found it! at first, i didn’t notice a drive called ar0 in my list of drives. i was trying to add the member disks individually then i figured the size of ar0 is the size of my array. and i just thought that the ‘r’ in ar0 must mean raid. thanks.

By: marvin

marvin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:50:19 +0000

hello! very nice tutorial! simple but imformative especially for windows users like me.

one question i have is, how do i add an existing raid10 to freenas? my controller is the one that came with my mobo and it’s intel (p965/ich8r). i’m really not familiar with controllers. i have it setup for raid 10 and was using server 2003 with it. my os hard drive just died and i would like to use freenas for the mean time. i have used it before and i’m kind of faniliar with the process, but that was starting from scratch, meaning, i started with empty disks and then setup my raid. how do i add my raid array without reformatting or starting from scratch? thank you.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:23:00 +0000

@Mike – glad you liked my posts. Afraid I can’t help with the RAID stuff – my life is pretty darned demanding right now. But this community has been great – perhaps one of them can step in and help you (and everyone else) out.

Thanks for stopping by.

Rob

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:57:22 +0000

Rob,
Great write ups! I followed through your other series and found these really help. The hardest thing was to get my permissions correct, even though my LAN is secure as well and the users are trusted, I have to manually add the hostname and IP address to allow on each share, kind of a bummer. This is WITH Anonymous permissions enabled.

Anyway, I would LOVE to see if you can write up a post on how to do RAID 5 setups. I have my NAS installed full on one HD that is 39 GB (currently testing now) but now I cannot use that HD as apart of the RAID 5 configuration because I cannot format it, seems like a major withdrawl having to sacrifice a full HD just because 256MB is reserved for the OS??

Any help would be great, thanks!

By: dsr

dsr — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:43:12 +0000

thanks..while i have you…

i can successfully see the drives thru windows explorer on my home lan . i played with setting up users, but it’s not clear to me that any of the folder or file protection setups can be done within freenas.

in other words – right now, all i have are 3 hd’s in a NAS which i can access. if i want to setup protection schemes ala USER_A can only read/write FOLDER_A, must that be done in a shell, or is there something i missed within freenas? I’m simply looking to setup shares on the NAS which are essentially password protected (or more explicitly – only available to a username/password which is identical on both the NAS and the Windows user trying to access it).

thanks

By: rob

rob — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:30:45 +0000

@dsr – I picked UFS since it was the default (and because I also had a Mac, which I didn’t mention to keep things simple). Sure – Windows only should turn on NTFS.

If you didn’t format the drives, they should still be NTFS. Nothing gets magically formatted.

Rob

By: dsr

dsr — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:34:54 +0000

Rob, Thanks for the tutorial. I want to use Freenas purely as a NAS to backup a set of Windows machines on my LAN. I’ll probably use Syncback to handle all the backup chores. Is there a reason/advantage to leave the formatting as UFS? Wouldn’t it make more sense to format all the drives as NTFS?

Now having said that, the drives i am using were previously formatted as NTFS and when i set them up under FREENAS, i didn’t see any formatting being done on them. Are they still NTFS? thanks

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