Hello all, I'm new to freenas and am a bit confused by volumes and datasets. Thank you for reading my post.
I have a 1 terabyte hard drive that I would like to share among ubuntu and apple computers. If I understand correctly these 2 shares which would require afp and cifs should not be created on the same volume. I'm confused as to weather I should partition my hard drive into 2 separate partitions and then put one volume on each partition, or just create 2 separate volumes on the entire disk/one partition, through the volume manager. I would rather have both of my ubuntu and apple computers be able to share the entire disk space together, but if that's not how freenas works that's ok, I'll just separate them.
Initially I tried with just one partition. Following the user guide I created a volume at /mnt/volume1. I then tried to create another volume, in the dialog box I set it to extend volume 1 but I can't select the Member Disks/drive, there's nothing listed, and the new volume isn't created. Even though at the top of the screen it says- volume successfully created for a few seconds, it doesn't show up in the Storage tab.
I was then further confused by datasets.. Should I just make 2 datasets on the one volume that I've created and put an afp share on one and a cifs share on the other?
Thank you for any help with this. Cheers.
I have a 1 terabyte hard drive that I would like to share among ubuntu and apple computers. If I understand correctly these 2 shares which would require afp and cifs should not be created on the same volume. I'm confused as to weather I should partition my hard drive into 2 separate partitions and then put one volume on each partition, or just create 2 separate volumes on the entire disk/one partition, through the volume manager. I would rather have both of my ubuntu and apple computers be able to share the entire disk space together, but if that's not how freenas works that's ok, I'll just separate them.
Initially I tried with just one partition. Following the user guide I created a volume at /mnt/volume1. I then tried to create another volume, in the dialog box I set it to extend volume 1 but I can't select the Member Disks/drive, there's nothing listed, and the new volume isn't created. Even though at the top of the screen it says- volume successfully created for a few seconds, it doesn't show up in the Storage tab.
I was then further confused by datasets.. Should I just make 2 datasets on the one volume that I've created and put an afp share on one and a cifs share on the other?
Thank you for any help with this. Cheers.