Chia farming in Ubuntu Server for beginners switching from Windows

This video is for folks that are currently farming Chia in Windows and want to switch over to Ubuntu server, for lightweight and low power, headless (no monitor) Chia farming.
Download Ubuntu Server
ubuntu.com/download/server
make bootable USB using rufus
rufus.ie/en/
Install Chia
github.com/Chia-Network/chia-...
0:00 - Intro
0:41 - using ssh
2:06 - mounting drives
3:06 - mount using fstab
6:07 - install Chia using apt method
8:41 - copy fully synced db
11:47 - adding drives to harvester to find plots
15:45 - syncing wallet first
17:59 - checking farm health - am I farming??

[@gardnerjp1]

Great video! Cut through all the noise and got to the point. Some of the documentation for the installation has been updated since this was made but it's all there.

[@steppsr]

Great video. I learn a couple new things and have been farming since 04-2021. Recursive plot scan is a great tip. Also didn't realize that 'chia show -c' was now 'chia peer -c'. Thanks!

[@debur22]

Great video. All Chia beginners need to see this and learn some good thinks.

[@MrOrnidoko]

Thanks, that was a very nice one!

[@chrishan9138]

Really useful stuff for making the jump

[@mattdallaire3058]

Thanks for the duf and uuid disk mounting tip! My mount points are a mess!

[@huansanders3036]

Thanks a lot JM! Can you make a video on how to backup you database and do this automaticly regularly?

[@kurt_harrop]

Thank you thank you thank you.

[@ronwatkins5775]

JM, if I wanted to learn how to select a 45-90 drive enclosure AND connect it to some efficient server, where would I go to find out what I need to know? I mean, like a list of compatible parts so that I don't spend thousands on stuff which won't work together for Chia. Is there a resource or sample systems or setups?

[@blueinthesnow]

Great video, thanks a lot! How can I set auto start chia when unexpected reboot?

[@eddiezhang6781]

nice and neat

[@jeffrisdon2803]

Thanks for this! got my Chia up and running. the only problem is when I run chia plotnft show, it says 0 plots and I have about 100 so far. Any ideas? Thanks!

[@reinhardtmayer4603]

very great video and very much appreciated. 👍 You got my subscription. Can you recommend a pool? Am not sure about Flexpool or Spacepool.

[@ChiaDecentral]

spacepool is great, but can't go wrong with the official protocol!

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

Flexpool is now dead, unfortunately.
They required their own miner (which worked very well), though they supported official OR Gigahorse plots including compressed ones.
Their miner was stand-alone, NOT "full node" needed, which made it a lot easier to deploy and worked well on lighter hardware with a LOT less server-specific storage due to NO BLOCKCHAIN on it (that can be worked around but is a bit of a pain to set up).
NoSSD requires their own software - which includes a FAST plotter that doesn't and never has needed a SSD at all - and only works with their own pool.
There are tradeoffs there, as they also offer the currently highest "plot compression" level if you can use it and be efficient.
No opinion on other pools, never used any of them.

[@reinhardtmayer4603]

Hey jm, I'm wondering at the beginning. Why do you mount the disk instead of the part? You didn't even create a part. I would prefer labeling gpt, making a part in cfdisk and partitioning the part to ext4 via mkfs. Then you get the UUID for part 1 and can add it in fstab

[@ChiaDecentral]

if you want to use the drives in Windows ever, partitions are required. I don't ever plan to move them, so no need to create the partition I can just use raw disk. Just saves one step

[@NoEgg4u]

@14:20 -- I did not know that Chia had a recursive directory search option, configurable in config.yaml.
I am running Windows, using NTFS mount points, and will give that a try.
If I decide to switch to Linux, this video will come in handy.
By the way, youtube inserted a farming commercial (with trackers, etc).

[@MarkDrake]

Hello, what if the HDD is NTFS? What command in /etc/fstab? I use "UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /media/hdd1 ntfs-3g defaults,nls=utf8,umask=000,dmask=027,fmask=137,uid=1000,gid=1000,windows_names 0 0" but then I can't mount the HDD (Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.) Someone help?

[@SantiTF]

I use /dev/disk/by-uuid/XXXXXXXXXXXX /mnt/hdd1 ntfs-3g default,ro 0 0 a works fine

[@videogamepolak0]

can someone explain to a newb what the breakdown of plots is per GB or TB? Im trying to find a mining calculator to know how much chia to expect per space, but Im not sure if im inputting proper information. Say I have 32TB of space as a example if someone can run the numbers/plots for me

[@JMHands]

Chia calculator is great!

[@nyctophilicman3660]

0.015$ for each 1TB

[@cdtluna]

no more videos? what happened?

[@gs4bidden399]

Could you make a migration of a windows farmer and harvester to linux with keys and all :)

[@user-jn5cs7kn9t]

chia什么时候可以被币安 coinbase 列出

[@soxfan_9631]

i used filezilla to move the synced blockchain to the hard drive

[@jorgemtds]

OOBANTOO does not exist.