Main Disk maybe failing!

[elibi]

Hello everyone!

I am very new to Linux and Amahi. I installed Amahi using the express CD on a 320 GB hard drive, then plugged 3X1TB hard drive, followed the tutorial to mount them and then added them to GH pooling.

Moved all my data from my old WD nas and Greyhole balanced them to the 3 1TB drives beautifully.

Anyways, I installed GNOME and it immediately gave me a hard drive failure warning, it is my main hard drive! too many bad sectors.

The hard drive is still working but I want to replace it. My question is: Does GH keep any data on the main drive or it transfer all of it to the pooling drives? Do I just replace the disk and install Amahi again and I should be seeing my data?

It's kind of confusing, what should I do?"

[ghstryder]

If your main drive is not pooled, then all of your data is on the 1TB drives. The main drive contains links only.

I would make sure Greyhole is not working on anything with:

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​tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log​

or

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while [ 1 == 1 ]; do greyhole --view-queue | grep Total; sleep 60; done​

I haven't tried it, but there is also http://www.amahi.org/apps/greyhole-logmon

Once you are satisfied that Greyhole is up to date and not working on anything, read this:
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Greyhol ... _.2F_Amahi

You will have to re-mount the pool drives, but since you have done that before, it should be trivial.