I’ve just migrated from CORE to SCALE as a clean install. Like before, I installed SCALE on my SanDisk Tiny USB 16GB flash drive as was recommended in the past (I know it’s less likely to do with SCALE). Following the migration guide, on first boot, I connected to the web-UI and imported the last …

No - in SCALE there is quite a lot of writes being done to the boot pool even if you move the system configuration dataset elsewhere - it is NOT just used for loading the O/S. This makes a USB flash drive completely unsuitable for use as a boot drive. I have a SSK USB SSD (looks like a flash stick…

Got it! I’ll then replace it with a decent SSD drive. Thanks for the info.

See my comment from yesterday. I ran happily on a usb thumb drive for a while. Then it just didn’t any more. I had a config backup so restore was easy, but boot-pool is now on spinning rust instead of a usb thumb drive.

Thanks for the heads up. I re-installed on my spare SSD drive. One thing though, it’s kind of a “waste” allocating a complete 250GB SSD just for TrueNAS without an option to also use it as a regular pool for fast access files, like SMB shares. Is it possible to split it into different partitions, …

[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 …

So based on option (4.), it’s yes to my question. Thanks! :slightly_smiling_face:

More accurately, it is “yes you can, BUT you really should not”. It’s a lot of complication for limited benefits.

Bunch of pessimists in this thread. Stop telling people what they can or cannot do with their NAS server. :angry:

[image] deepforest: Is it possible to split it into different partitions, allocate one (~20GB) for OS and the rest as zfs pool? In essence relatively easy. Start boot the installer, go into command line and edit one line in the install script (which allocates the boot pool partition) and it w…

What’s wrong with splitting the SSD into two partitions so what already occupied by the TrueNAS installer will become the first partition? I believe it involves updating grub to boot load from this partition. It’s quite easy to do with any other Linux distro.

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