Hardware Install

New Drive

Installation

1. Physically install the drive
2. CLI instructions via perfectmediaserver. However, when I did this things broke. I had better luck through the Ubuntu GUI - obviously that's not always possible or ideal. Problem for another day.

Mounting

1. ls -la /dev/disk/by-id to get the disk's proper name
2. mkdir /mnt/disk<number> choose your own name, but it needs to be unique
3. mount /dev/disk/by-id/<diskname> /mnt/disk<number> include the "part1"
4. The drive should now be found via ls /mnt/disk<number>
5. Confirm with df -h

Prep for MergerFS and SnapRAID

via PMS:

We recommended /mnt/diskN because it makes the fstab entry for MergerFS simpler

1. mkdir /mnt/parity1 # adjust this command based on your parity setup
2. mkdir /mnt/storage # this will be the main mergerfs mountpoint

fstab