Time: 40 Minutes
Generally I don’t really care about the details or best practices but over my career I have learned the importance of why best practices exist. I decided to build my own NAS from parts I had laying around. I had a RPi 4 model b (2 gb) and (2) 2 tb firecuda drives (spindle drives) I bought two sata to usb cables with power adapters to complete this build.
This is kind of a long article I apologize, but I felt the need to give all of the details of this particular build.
Here are the Pre-Requisites:
1 – Ubuntu Server/RPi OS Buster/Bullseye
2 – Webmin installed to manage it.
3 – iSCSI, nfs-kernel-server, & Samba
note: If using the RPi 4 Device you will need the following:
1 – RPi 4 Model B Device
2 – (2) sata to usb cables/adapter w/power adapter
3 – (2) 2tb Hard Drives
4 – RPi OS installed on the device
5 – 30 minutes of time
6 – patience
Use RPi Imager to burn the os to the SD Card:
Remove the SD Card and plug it back in we have some things we need to do before we boot the pi with it.
Open File Explorer
The Above can be copied and pasted into this file I always put it at the start of the line:
ip=12.18.2.21::12.18.2.1:255.255.255.0:rpi4-k3s-w02:eth0:off cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1 swapaccount=1
Next we need to open the config.txt
sudo nano -c config.txt### This will disable WiFi and Bluetooth ###
dtoverlay=disable-wifi
dtoverlay=disable-bt
# dtparam=audio=on
dtparam=audio=off
### Add on the last line after the [all] section This makes sure 64bit is used ###
arm_64bit=1
Check to see if the drives are recognized:
Check to see if the drives are recognized:
1 – lsblk
Make sure we update the repositories and the OS packages
2 – sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
Let’s install the needed software:
3 – sudo apt -y install tgt samba nfs-kernel-server
Create the array
4 – sudo mdadm –create –verbose /dev/md0 –level=0 –raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
Let’s make sure it was created properly
5 – cat /proc/mdstat
Create the filsystem on the raid
6 – sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0
Create the mount point
7 – sudo mkdir -p /mnt/Stor2
8 – sudo mount /dev/md0 /mnt/Stor2
Let’s append the config to the mdadm config file
9 – sudo mdadm –details –scan | sudo tee –a /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
Enable the Raid at boot
10 – sudo update-initramfs -u
Put the raid mount point in the fstab file
11 – /dev/md0 /mnt/Stor2 ext4 defaults,nofail,discard 0 0
Test the raid to make sure it’s functioning properly
12 – sudo chmod -Rf 777 /mnt/Stor2/
13 – sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
Let’s install your new GUI: (IF YOU ARE INSTALLING THIS ON A RPi 4 GOTO RPi4 install below)
14 – sudo apt -y install software-properties-common apt-transport-https
15 – sudo wget -q http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc
16 – sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib”
17 – sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install webmin
18 – sudo systemctl status webmin
Goto the interface in your browser
19 – https://[your server’s IP]:10000/
RPi4 INSTALL:### Install OS on the RPi4 device ###
If this is a RPi Device use RPi imager to burn to a SDCard. 2 - Once booted ssh into the VM/Device (ssh user@ip_address_here) 3 - sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade 4 - sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York ### Install Virtualmin on the RPi4 w/Buster ### You can install Virtualmin on a Raspberry Pi with just a simple modification in the install script.
I have my Raspberry Pi 4 installed with "RaspberryPi OS Buster" and it is based on Debian Linux 10 using the install script. What you need to do is 1. wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh 2. sudo nano install.sh 3. Find the text "get_distro" 4. Add in os_type="debian" after get_distro
get_distro os_type="debian" log_debug "Operating system name: $os_real" log_debug "Operating system version: $os_version" log_debug "Operating system type: $os_type" log_debug "Operating system major: $os_major_version" What this does is, it will force the script to recognize the host as a debian operating system. Execute the script ... It should install without any issues. 5. chmod 755 install.sh 6. ./install.sh
### wait for the script to finish then: ### 7 - https://ip_address_here:10000 ### and login with your account. ###
On the left navigation goto Tools>File Manager
I created my directories under /mnt directory
Mine look like this /mnt/Stor2/dir_name_here
Now we need to share them. I will use NFS here, but I will also give an example smb/cifs/samba.
Enable Samba Share
That completes the process for Samba/NFS shares. If you have any questions you can email us support@rpihobby.us. Also use the comments also if you like.
### I will not take credit for this the individual below gets all the credit. ###
This is per enzochzng on the Raspberry Pi forums
Post is here.
Thank you for reading and stopping by.