Installed with two drives

[jknaebel]

Hello, I apologize if this is obvious to all of you, but I've searched for about an hour and I'm not sure I have the answer to my question. I forgot I had a second hard drive installed in my computer when I installed Amahi. I realize that I should have had the second drive unplugged during install, then later added the drive via instructions on the Wiki.

My question is: in my current out of the box headless install, what is the second drive being used for? Anything at all?

If I want to use the drive in greyhole, should I just reinstall the Amahi system, this time without the drive plugged in?

Sorry for the dumb questions.

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

This is a good question. The drive is probably not being used. Question is it already mounted. You can try running the hda-diskmount script and see if it shows up.

Also, if it is already mounted, you could edit the /etc/fstab and change the mount location. Could also leave it mounted as is and just see if its listed in the dashboard in the storage pool area.

[jknaebel]

Thank you for the guidance. The drive was not showing up in the dashboard, and it was not listed with the HDA-diskmount script. So I followed the directions to mount a second drive and after a couple attempts I did it correctly. Now the drive shows up in the dashboard.

If you don't mind, please verify that I can now pool this second drive (320Gb) with the first drive (where HDA is installed, a 500Gb drive) and use Greyhole. I see lots of warnings about LZ's and not using the root partition because it could crash the system if it fills up. Am I OK since my biggest drive is the primary drive?

Thanks again. Amahi has been great to use so far.

Jay

[bigfoot65]

I would recommend you not use the / partition for the storage pool. If you do and it fills up, the OS will crash. If you are not an experienced Linux user, it can be difficult to fix.