Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:37 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:21 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
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> > I have looked into OpenNAS and other NAS OS stuff.  Some are on USB
sticks and basically, you shut it down, upgrade the USB stick, insert it
back into NAS and boot up.
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> The first version of TrueNAS I used was on a USB stick and it worked fine
so I'm fairly confident you'd be at least functional.

One last thing for now - if you do buy a used MB do some research into
whether it will actually boot from USB. One of the ones I bought actually
did not do that so I had to dig up a old DVD drive to install from a CD.

- M