homelab

Personal homelab (Raspberry Pi 4) setup.

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB
• NVMe SSD 1TB
• Dual SATA HDD Bay with Hardware RAID
• 2 x HDD 16TB

Platform Setup

1. Install Arch Linux ARM (aarch64) on the SSD following the guides

   • Raspberry Pi 4 - Arch Linux ARM
   • Arch Linux ARM USB Boot on Raspberry Pi 4
   • This comment on the previous gist

2. Install the HDDs in the bay and set up RAID1 mode for redundancy.

3. Format the resulting logical drive with an ext4 partition.

   lsblk
   sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
   # create an ext4 partition using the default values
   sudo mkfs.ext4 /sdb1

4. Automatically mount the drive by adding it to fstab.

   # Static information about the filesystems.
   # See fstab(5) for details.
   
   # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
   UUID=036B-B429 /boot vfat defaults 0 0
   UUID=<hdd-uuid> /mnt/hdd ext4 defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=5 0 2

5. Change the ownership of the mounted drive.

   chown $USER:$USER /mnt/hdd