I just setup a HP n40l with 1 parity drive and 3 share drives. Is what I would like to do now is add my old laptop drive in there to install programs on like plex/squeezebox/etc. Is this the best way to go about this and if so how do I do this?

 

 

Add laptop drive as cache.

Create mnt/cache/.programs directory on cache drive

viola programs installed

Add laptop drive as cache.

Create mnt/cache/.programs directory on cache drive

viola programs installed

 

I like to use .local on the cache drive.

 

i.e.

 

mkdir /mnt/cache/.local

 

then I make a symlink off /mnt with

 

cd /mnt && ln -s cache/.local local

ls -l | grep local

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  12 Feb  8 14:03 local -> cache/.local/

 

That leaves me with a root path tree of /mnt/local/

which lets me build Filesystem Hierarchy Standard from there.

 

We have /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/etc.  (etc, etc)

so I put my local programs I do not want to be on the ramdrive in /mnt/local

 

i.e.

 

/mnt/local/bin

/mnt/local/sbin

/mnt/local/etc

 

It also lets you compile programs using gnu tools with

 

./configure --prefix=/mnt/local

which then installs files in the respective directories in the respective root.

 

One day, I'll probably adjust the whole /boot/custom to be the same with /boot/local.

 

 

For those that use a separate apps drive different from the cache drive (or a separate partition).

 

You can mount apps/local tree with

 

mkdir /mnt/local

mount -L local /mnt/local

 

 

 

 

I don't think I want to go the cache drive route - is there another method of doing this?

I don't think I want to go the cache drive route - is there another method of doing this?

 

Sure but you have do everything manually and script the mounting of the filesystem in the go script.

With the cache drive route, it will be mounted automatically on boot.

The only thing you need to do manually is make the .directory and/or add a few lines to the go script if you want to use the .local and symlink methodology.

 

So is this done with say SNAP - http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Add_Ons#SNAP

 

The laptop drive is being run thru preclear and is running at roughly 25mb/s for what its worth.

 

If you are using v5b11 or higher, you can use Benni-chan's drive mount plugin. I am using it on my server and it works great.

 

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Are you guys able to then setup the programs to run behind your computers VPN?

 

IE, install SABnzbd on Unraid cache drive as described above...

 

Then have your firewall block that application from accessing the network except when behind a VPN?

 

Thanks!

If you are using v5b11 or higher, you can use Benni-chan's drive mount plugin. I am using it on my server and it works great.

 

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In my test rig I tried v5b11 or something like that but too many issues with "NFS" shares for my wdtv live plus so I went back to 4.7 for now until the NFS issue is resolved.

So I used snap to setup my spare laptop drive.

 

How do I go about installing squeezeboxserver on it?