Boot and storage device can be the same?

[mzenzer]

I installed FreeNAS 11 on a Dell workstation with a 2TB drive. It's not for anything mission critical, and I'll be sort of playing around with it for a while before I begin using it to store much data, but is there a way to use the 2TB drive I installed FreeNAS to as the storage volume? Or a partition of it? Thanks!

 

[wblock]

FreeNAS is built so that the boot device is specifically not used as a storage device. But the boot device can be a USB stick, 8G or larger.

 

[mzenzer]

FreeNAS is built so that the boot device is specifically not used as a storage device. But the boot device can be a USB stick, 8G or larger.

Got it. Thanks!

 

[Chris Moore]

I installed FreeNAS 11 on a Dell workstation with a 2TB drive. It's not for anything mission critical, and I'll be sort of playing around with it for a while before I begin using it to store much data, but is there a way to use the 2TB drive I installed FreeNAS to as the storage volume? Or a partition of it? Thanks!

What model workstation did you use?
The first FreeNAS build I ever did was using a Dell Precision T3500. It worked great and I used it for a couple years.