OMV supports running from a USB stick. Not ideal in all situations, but I ran it successfully that way for many years. Another option for install is to install a base Debian system and then install OMV on top of it. Both are supported install methods. I believe you can create your separate partitions as part of the deb install and then OMV only installs on the deb partition.
Please confirm all of this info from the docs as this is my recollection and I have not validated it recently.
Comment on Thinking about switching away from TrueNAS scale to OMV
golli@lemm.ee 1 year agoIf I remember correctly, OMV takes the whole drive for the OS as well.
I’ll take a look into that. I know that there are benefits to that approach, but i have a limited number of slots for drives and i’d rather not use a full SSD just for the OS.
I love the ability to really experiment with pretty much anything without impacting the services already running
I’ll probably do my experimenting somewhere else and just keep the NAS as simple as possible
Jiirbo@kbin.social 1 year ago
golli@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Currently doing some digging. Seems like there is a plugin (sharerootfs) that solves the problem that you’d waste so much space when installing ovm on a ssd.
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 year ago
Not the person you responded to. I’m running OMV in a VM in Proxmox. This gives me the flexibility to experiment in other vms while leaving my OMV vm alone. I have no complaints, it runs great, but if your use case is 95% NAS with a few containers sprinkled on top I’d probably not go that route.
OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yeah, I’m using an old desktop as my home server/NAS, so it has enough juice for several proxmox containers and VMs. If yours is just functioning as a NAS it’s probably not worth more complexity than a single OS.