File Server

carlosinfl · 12-21-2006, 02:41 PM

Ok - I have 2 spare 500GB drives (S-ATA) and would like to make a simple PC and make it a headless file server. I don't need SAMBA since we have no Microsoft PC's on the LAN. Just Linux.

Where do I start and what do I need to make this possible? The machine will have both drives running in RAID0 for a total combination of 1TB of storage space. I know RAID0 is an issue but it is only for me to snap files to and from and nothing mission critical will be on this machine.

Thanks for any help! I will be using a stable version of Debian on this machine.

acid_kewpie · 12-21-2006, 02:46 PM

well not much to do really, just kick off nfs on it and you're home and dry really... if it's standalone fileserver without a wider user base, you may want to fiddle with uid's for the nfs export, but there's not likely to be any real need.

carlosinfl · 12-21-2006, 02:58 PM

Only myself and one other person will be using it so I guess all I need to install is NFS, right?

Here is what I find when I look for NFS...

Code:

nfs-common - NFS support files common to client and server
nfs-kernel-server - Kernel NFS server support
nfs-user-server - User space NFS server
nfsboot - Allow clients to boot over the network
nfsbooted - Prepares your image for nfs boot

I would assume I would only want to install the 1st and 3rd option, no?

acid_kewpie · 12-21-2006, 03:27 PM

people try to do too much and it gets confusing ehh? yeah that looks right, never run it as a kernel server myself. no plans to start...

carlosinfl · 12-22-2006, 08:48 AM

Very cool - Looks like I will be setting up my own file server this weekend, we'll see how that goes!