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I don't know if there's a downside but I do something that I don't see mentioned often here: I have the landing zone in my storage pool. This way, I never have to wait for copies to be made and balancing to occur; it's done instantly. The problem is that when running torrents or ftp most of the dis...

Yeah, thats how greyhole works. It naged me at first.
You can make a share called "Greyhole Recycle Bin" which will give you direct access to greyhole attic files. I usualy just run the "greyhole --empty-attic" once in a while.

Type: to see greyhole status.

...more to follow soon

EDIT: Ohh yeah. If the space isn't released then run a to purge "recycle bin".

EDIT2: follow up.
The "-f" schedules a fsck and "-l" balances the data.

Have you tried to force greyhole to balance the drives?

First, do: Then let it finish
Then do: /daniel

I have an almost identical setup and after a couple of tries I've ended up with this config: HDD1 contains 50GB for boot, root, swap and home. The remainder 450GB is mounted as /var/hda/files for LZ and /torrents. HDD2-5 contains all greyhole shares except. It seems to be an OK solution. But since t...

Thanks gents :) I ended up making a /root, /boot and swap at the first 30GB and used the remaining 470GB as LZ and torrent zone. I didn't use any LVM for the OS partitions as described in the wiki. Does it give any advantages / disadvantages? It has been running pretty smooth so far, but transfer sp...

Experience tells me that around 200GB+ is suitable for LZ - depending on how much data you backup / move around. But for everyday use 400GB is plenty for me, after I've moved my existing files to the shares.

I had sorta the same layout before. A small disk for OS and the 500GB for LZ and then the rest for Greyhole pool. I just want to drop the small OS disk since both OS disk and LZ disk are active most of the time. Mabey it would make more sense to make a root, boot, swap at the first 20GB and mount th...

I think I found the answer in the Wiki here: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Install_without_LVM

So my original suggestion was not entirely off