DanielM

Thanks a lot both of you! I kinda suspected there would be a handy tool for it, just didn't find it in the documentation :-) Guess that means I'll just buy the smallest A1 SD card I can find and have it boot from that. Another newbie question: I see that some of the software I'm planning to use is available via the software menu in armbian-config. Is it better to use this install option than an ordinary apt-get install? Can't see much about what the differences are... /Daniel

Hi. I've just bought a Rock Pi 4a board, I plan to use it as home server, running stuff like Owncloud, Postfix/Dovecot, Apache, pihole, OpenHab, Emby server etc. I'm thinking of running Armbian on it, but I have absolutely no experience of this dist (I've been managing Debian/Ubuntu servers for many years though). It's going to run headless. I'm wondering what would be the best way to set up disks from an Armbian point of view. My main reason for buying Rock Pi is for the M.2 port, I'm going to put my data on a M.2 disk. Booting from M.2 seems to be tricky though so I'm thinking about booting from micro SD card. I don't want to put any important data or any data that is written a lot on the card though, so my question is what the best way to do this would be? 1: I just keep / on the sd card and mount /var and maybe /home from the M.2 disk. 2: I just boot from the sd card and keep /boot there and keep the entire / on the M.2 disk. (not sure how to set this up though, any good guides?) 3: Any better suggestion? /Daniel