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Part 5: Redundancy tasks. The first four posts “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1“, “– part 2“, “– part 3” and “– part 4” dealt with the setup of, the access to, the management/diagnosis and the maintenance tasks of a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post […]
Linux offers the option of logical volumes, these are disk arrays which form larger single volumes. A software package for this purpose is called lvm2 and can be used in a DietPi system.This post shows how to generate a logical volume and use resp. manage it using the lvm2 package. Table of contents 1. Introduction […]
Thin clients are typically PC based systems which are often outphased due to their limited resources compared to the actual needs, e.g. in Windows environments. This thin client hardware can be re-used in a kind of a “second life” to serve as a Linux hardware. Especially, DietPi with its lightweight approach is a good choice […]
Part 4: RAID maintenance. The first three posts “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1”, “- part 2” and “- part 3” dealt with the setup of, the access to and the management/diagnosis of a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post deals with the maintenance tasks, e.g. […]
This blog post gives an overview about what can actually be done with a system consisting of the brand new RISC-V single board computer VisionFive 2 from StarFive. The article will be updated whenever new insights and findings are present.
Part 3: Basic management and diagnosis tasks. The first two posts “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1” and “- part 2” dealt with the setup of and the access to a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post deals with the basic management and diagnosis tasks, e.g. […]
Part 2: Access the RAID. The first post “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1” dealt with the setup of a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post deals with the usage, i.e. managing the access to the RAID from outside via NFS, Samba and FTP. Table of […]
Part 1: System overview and installation of the RAID. RAID storage systems can act as a backup system with a low failure rate. Setting up such a system is no rocket science and is described in a step by step manner below. The objective is to achieve an economical NAS storage for access via NFS […]
In the last blog entry Install a DietPi desktop system in a few steps, the installation of a DietPi system with a graphical user interface is described. DietPi has built in installation options for a couple of desktop variants (Xfce, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, GNUstep).This blog post describes how to install further desktop variants and how […]
The DietPi base installation basically focuses on headless resp. machines without a graphical user interface (GUI) dealing with server applications like Nextcloud, Pi-hole, media servers, etc.Generally, an installation of a graphical desktop via dietpi-config and dietpi-software is not difficult, but with the DietPi built-in automated installation process this can be simplified. This blog article shows […]
