Unless I'm sorely mistaken, these are two very different things. VMs are for running a lot of stuff on a single machine, in several separate OS instances, for security or other reasons. This may or may not make sense for a home server, but it is clearly applicable in this forum's context. By contras...

Well... I was afraid someone would say that :-)

But OK, for the sake of long-term stability, copying the contents to a new disk and reformatting is not a big price to pay...

Thanks for the advice !

Okay, first question... I figure I'd better clear up this one before getting started :) I've bought a couple of new disks for my upcoming FlexRAID box, and intend to re-use another couple of existing ones. One of these is a fairly recent 2TB Samsung F4 (same as the new ones). It is currently inside ...

Hi Ian & the gang, Fred here, from Paris, France. I came upon your "How to install and configure FlexRAID on Ubuntu Server" page last February, coming from the OpenEgg forum, and bookmarked it for later. Silly me, I only just understood today that it was but part of a whole series, cho...