SOLVED: Where is my data?

[anamika]

I installed amahi on a 120 GB USB connected drive. In addition I have 3TB x2 internal drives. All my drives show up on the dashboard. However, my understanding is that var/hda/docs or movies or pictures is created in my 120GB disk. I want the data to be stored in my 3TB disc and not in my boot disc. Is there a way to change the location where the files are stored?

[bigfoot65]

All the shares are stored in /var/hda/files directoy. You can relocate them and update the path in the dashboard UI. See storage and file sharing for details.

There are many ways to approach this scenario, but the one mentioned above is probably the best. Keep in mind you will need to manually move the shares folders to the other drive.

[anamika]

Thank you Bigfoot. I ll try that. Is it possible to create the var/hda/files directory to my 3TB drive and keep the boot drive in the smaller drive during installation?

[bigfoot65]

Not sure what you mean by during installation. You should only have one drive connected when initially installing Amahi.

That is something that you would do when adding additional drives. See adding a second hard drive to your HDA for details.

All additional drives to the OS have to be mounted following the guidance above.

[anamika]

During installation all my drives show up and I was able to manually select the boot drive for installation. I was hoping I can do the same thing for the var directory.

[bigfoot65]

Nope.

You missed the point. There is only supposed to be one drive connected for installation! You then follow the guidance I posted previously to mount additional drives.

Are the other drives connected in /etc/fstab? Just because they were present during installation does not mean they are mounted.

Recommend you follow the installation instructions to ensure success. Failure to do so could cause more issues.

[anamika]

I still could not resolve the problem. Here is what I did.
yum -y install pmount fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g util-linux-ng parted nano
ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ > before.txt
cat before.txt
Both my Internal drives showed up along with my boot drive. Hence, I skipped after text and went to partition.
parted /dev/sda
parted /dev/sdb
Verify command
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
None of my Internal disk showed up. Only the boot disk was present after this command.
Can you please explain where I went wrong wrong?

[bigfoot65]

Did you follow the adding a second hard drive to your HDA instructions? If so, then there should be no issues.

[anamika]

I did and it messed up my installation. I think adding 2 nd hard drive will only work if the hard drive was not present during installation. Is there any easy way to do this?

[bigfoot65]

Currently this is the only process for adding drives.

Did you ensure the drive was not already included in /etc/fstab before following he tutorial? Many users have followed this guidance with no issues.

I can try to assist, but would need to know what your specific problem is currently with mounting the drive.