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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.

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.

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

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.