Local network iSCSI setup
Simple notes so far:
# is it a local dev server? echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs apt-get install ntpdate open-iscsi /etc/init.d/open-iscsi start iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.1.5 # make sure the only iscsi target is the NAS box cd /etc/iscsi/nodes/iqn.1992-04.com.emc:storage.juicy-nas.braeburn rm -rf [everythign except: 192.168.1.5,3260,1] # edit default file and set any "manual" values to automatic # and do the same for: nano /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf node.session.timeo.replacement_timeout = 5 node.conn[0].timeo.login_timeout = 5 node.conn[0].timeo.logout_timeout = 15 node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_interval = 2 node.conn[0].timeo.noop_out_timeout = 2 node.session.err_timeo.abort_timeout = 15 /etc/init.d/open-iscsi restart # use virtualmin for this: fdisk /dev/sdb # format disk mkfs -t ext4 -q /dev/sdb1 # find out the disk name # and edit /etc/fstab nano /etc/fstab # add the following /dev/sdb1 /home ext4 defaults,auto,_netdev 0 0