How do you install this software and have it not take up the entire drive? Please tell me they didn’t design this software to lock down an entire drive for the OS! Been struggling to install things I plan to run on the server and I am getting nothing but permission issues even though I have made m…

[image] I have to waste an entire drive just for booting? Resources This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. With the advent of TrueNAS Scale, we seem to be …

Arguing for a feature that isn’t going to happen? How is it not part of the natural installation process to be able to choose a partition instead of sacrificing an entire drive? Would everyone use Windows if it took the entirety of you install drive? Don’t worry, stepping away from this software …

Actually there is a pretty good rationale for this - which is that fixing an OS issue is as easy as installing again and restoring the system configuration file, and that allowing partitions would complicate this recovery process.

[image] Jfree1975: Please tell me they didn’t design this software to lock down an entire drive for the OS! If you’d bothered to read the docs–or even the installer–you wouldn’t need to ask this question. It’s the way the software’s designed. It’s always been the way it’s designed. In all …

Just wondering what your plan if it did not take up the entire drive.

[image] Jfree1975: Please tell me they didn’t design this software to lock down an entire drive for the OS! TrueNAS does not lock the drive and with minimal knowledge you are able to run it in a partition… just it’s not how it is supposed to be used, hence there is no built-in option to do so…

[image] Jfree1975: I have no problem letting people know if you’re not Enterprise enough to use this software don’t bother looking into it. This is NOT really anything that is tied to Enterprises as you are alleging. It is much more to do with the idea of TrueNAS Scale as an “appliance” rathe…

[image] dan: If that doesn’t meet your requirements, there are plenty of alternative NAS OSs. I’m just not sure which one meets the “requirement” here. OMV is just like TrueNAS and takes a dedicated boot device.

…and unRAID works the same way, and so does XigmaNAS. Maybe it isn’t such a ridiculous way of doing things after all. Don’t have a whole lot of patience with someone who can’t even be bothered to read the installer screens, much less to RTFM, and joins here just to crap on the product.

[image] Jfree1975: Would everyone use Windows if it took the entirety of you install drive? Because Windows isn’t an appliance firmware. It’s a consumer or server operating system; same as if you just installed bare bones Debian it won’t take the whole try. [image] Jfree1975: How is it n…

I am sure that this has been discussed before, but I seem to not be able to find it

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I am sure that this has been discussed before, but I seem to not be able to find it

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