Let’s Convert an Old Laptop to NAS – What You Need to Do

In this video, we're going to take the idea of an old laptop that only has an internal hard drive. To get more space, we will add two additional hard drives via USB connection. But you should not "Raid/" between these HDs to use all these HDS as a single HD because the USB connection is not stable. So why not use MergerFs for this. After that, we will use “Fuse” to automatically start MergerFS.
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To update your system, use the following command:
sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y

To install Mergerfs, use the following command:
sudo apt install fusionnerfs

To install Fuse, use the following command:
sudo apt install fuse -y
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Check out my configurationmergefs.service

[Unit]
Description of the MergerFS assembly
Afternetwork-online.target

[Service]
Typeforking
ExecStart/usr/bin/mergerfs /absolute/path/local/HD1:/absolute/path/local/HD2 / /absolute/path/local/merger -o rw,use_ino,allow_other,func.getattrnewest,category.actionall,category .createff,cache.filesauto-full
ExecStop/bin/fusermount -uz /absolute/path/local/merger
KillModenone
Reboot Failed

[Install]
WantedBymulti-user.target

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To place the service in the system folder, use the following command:
sudo cp mergerfs.service /etc/systemd/system

To enable the service, use the following command:
sudo systemctl activate fusionfs.service

To start the service, use the following command:
sudo systemctl start mergerfs.service

To check if the service is working, use the following command:
sudo systemctl status fusionfs.service

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