Problem/Justification When installing TrueNAS on a SSD with a lot of storage the whole SSD cann’t be used for anything else. It would be nice to be able to use the rest of the SSD for atleased something like a L2ARC or as a seperate pool for not important data. Impact TrueNAS would only create a …

Please see [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 …

No, no, no, no, and no. Where’s the “vote against” button?

128GB SATA SSDs cost around €15. Just saying.

I have to agree, it would be nice to have a function like that. :rofl: Just kidding! I couldn’t imagine how problematic that would be when updating or reinstalling TrueNAS. There are guides on how to manually perform this function however us hard core TrueNAS (or any corporate environment) people …

:smiley: All fine, I just thought about everything that bugged me when first installing TrueNAS and made feature requests for them. I didn’t know about the statement that @SmallBarky replied earlier.

Don’t forget to take your vote back & you can probably DM a mod to get this thread locked

Doesn’t require a mod, just his confirmation here.

Utilize boot drive as normal disk

Feature Requests

SmallBarky July 27, 2024, 12:23pm 3

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Utilize boot drive as normal disk

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