8 Jan 2016 • on raspberry nas openmediavault omv

Use the Raspberry Pi as NAS server

First of all - due to the crapy data throughput of the Raspberry Pi you should not expect high performance data transfer. A 1GB file will take ~20 minutes to be transfered.

That said lets dive directly into the setup.

Prerequisites:

sudo rights on your working station
external hard disks (one or more)
OpenMediaVault image for your Pi

Install OMV OS

Insert the SD card onto your computer
Get the device name of the SD card - should be something like: /dev/disk2

➜  ~ diskutil list
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *31.9 GB    disk2
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 boot                    58.7 MB    disk2s1
   2:                      Linux                         3.5 GB     disk2s2
   3:                      Linux                         67.1 MB    disk2s3

Open the terminal and open the folder where you downloaded your OMV Os to.
Unzip the file:

gunzip omv_3.0.24_beta_rpi2_rpi3.img.gz

Now you need to unmount your SD card an install the img (be sure you substitue /dev/disk2 with your device name of the SD card):

sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
sudo dd bs=1m if=omv_3.0.24_beta_rpi2_rpi3.img of=/dev/disk2

Put the SD card into your Raspberry Pi and start it - but make sure the external hard disks and the ethernet cable are connected
Now you’ll be prompted with the login:

raspberrypi login: root
Password: openmediavault

Get the IP address of your Raspberry Pi (ifconfig):

root@raspberrypi:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:f0:ea:18
          inet addr:***.***.*.**  Bcast:***.***.*.***  Mask:***.***.***.*

On your workstation you can open a webbrowser and as url type: http://[your-ip]
The default weblogin is:

Username: admin
Password: openmediavault

The first thing you should do is to change the default password to something secure:

sudo passwd