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I appreciate the suggestion. I will probably go with Armbian Ubuntu - I'm familiar with Ubuntu in general, less headache than OMV, and unless I make a mistake when partitioning I can preserve the data on the harddrive from the other server. I could try docker in Ubuntu...

Hi Igor. Were you referring to using containers (docker) in OMV or in Ubuntu? Previously I ran everything in the OS. I looked in to docker, but for my application it seems like I'm only adding complexity. Am I missing something?

Thank you, chwe. OMV was the first OS I tried and if a NAS was all this server was going to do I would have kept it. I also run Pihole, Stubby, rclone (sync to gdrive), and LibreNMS. I might be able to make it all work under OMV, but I'm concerned about updates breaking it. I currently run all of this on a SuperMicro Atom server running Ubuntu 18.04 that the HC2 will be replacing. As a side note, I'm bringing the harddrive over from the Atom. I'm going to attempt to remove one LVM partition, shrink the PV to allow room for / and swap as physical partitions, and then mount the remaining LVM partition where my data lives. It worked on a test drive, and I have a backup. That was another reason not to use OMV - mounting the harddrive was going to force a format - not sure if I could mount the LVM partition from the command line and get OMV to _not_ nuke it. I asked a similar question on the hardkernel forum and so far no one has given a real answer to which OS I should choose.

I have an Odroid HC2 that will be used as a NAS. I plan to run Ubuntu 18.04, which I can get in either Hardkernel or Armbian flavor. Is there a practical difference between them? Is there a reason to choose one over the other?