As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to set up some NFS shares on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Pretty painless, but I need the option to connect from my iMac, there were some additional hoops to jump through, to get everything to work correctly.

Steps

1. Install the necessary packages:

   sudo apt install …

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As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to share the videos folder on my NAS, that is used by Plex.

I've done very basic, simple Samba shares before, simply to quickly transfer files, with little regard to security and/or safeguarding.

I'll give TrueNAS credit, it's GUI makes setting up a Samba …

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I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for over 8 years, and while it works great as a NAS, some of the idiosyncrasies made me decide to migrate to Ubuntu:

1. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD, and while it's similar to Linux, it's not 100% the same.

2. The feature set of TrueNAS is overkill for my needs.

   • I'm simple home user.
   • I'm …

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After setting up my KVM system, I quickly realized that the 1Tb hard drive I was using for KVM-related files wasn't going to cut it, so I bought a 4Tb drive to go along with it.

Inserted the new drive, and booted up the system.

Prechecks

• Before changing anything, dump the current config of the LVM VG, named kvm-vg …

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On my new KVM system, I had a SSD for the Ubuntu OS, but wanted a separate LVM Logical Volume for the KVM-related files/folder, such as ISO files, KVM images, etc.

LVM understands hard drives without a partition table, and you can use the entire drive for LVM without partitioning. The drawback is that we'll have to use …

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I recently installed WebVirtCloud for a browser-based way of administrating my KVM server remotely.

Originally, I used the auto-install script provided, which required some changes to get it to work/work correctly on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Looking further into the auto-install script, I decided to document how to do a …

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