First of all, I've got is a machine with 4 drives in it. One drive is a 2TB drive partitioned into 4 drives and mounted as /, /home, swap, and a large partition for data. Then I have 3 other drives that are, or were originally, Windows drives. I also have a 5-drive eSata enclosure connected to this machine. So in all, I've got 9 drives going here. My strategy was to move the data from one drive, reformat it as ext4 (is there a reason to use ext3 instead?), add it to greyhole and then fill it up with data, allowing me to move another drive over, etc., etc. What I'm struggling with are several things:
- 1. I mentioned it above, but is there a reason I should use ext3 instead of ext4 formatting?
2. How do I identify which drives are internal and which are external from within the file manager?
3. In my attempt to move the drives from /media to /mnt, I've completely messed up both of those folders. What is the guidance on how to properly move mount points? Should I just copy all of the data from the ntfs drives first, and then move them into mnt? And what is the guidance on how to label them, or what folder I should use in /mnt for each drive?
4. I've create shares in Amahi, which are all pointing to folders under my /home/username/ folder (i.e. /home/username/Movies, /home/username/Music, etc). I've set them all to Use Pool. Will they use the Greyhole pool, or do I need to move the shares to one of the Greyhole drives?
5. How do I find out how much free space I have in my pool?
6. Every time I boot up I get errors saying this drive or that drive can't be mounted, or isn't available yet, etc. I've put them all into fstab, and once I boot up they are all there, so why aren't they available during boot?
7. Almost forgot this one - in my Storage Pool screen in Amahi I see these warning icons (
) and I have no idea what the actual warning is. How do I find that out? It's not clickable, and when you mouse over it it just says "WARNING"...
Thanks!
Eddie
