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I've experimented with linux over the years but never adopted it. I get its power but I don't like its 'ease of use'. This is something I love about Windows Home Server (WHS). I want Amahi to be my alternative but setting up Greyhole and the drives confuses me. So I am hoping someone can help a noobie with the set-up. I'm sure this would be of great benefit to many others transitioning from WHS too.

1. Should I partition my / drive to separate the system and storage so that it can used in greyhole? If so, how do I do that?
2. How do I format/prepare my 3 other drives to be part of the Greyhole pool? Are they formatted during this installation?
3. How do I add them to the pool?
4. How do I tell my shares to use the drive pool?
5. How do I add another drive?
6. How do I remove a drive?
7. How do I replace a drive?
8. Is there a graphical way to do any or all of this?
9. Am I missing something?

I hope you can help me. My researching, googling and browsing has not led a to an encompassing step by step guide. It would also be helpful to me to understand why I am typing in each command.

Thank you!

Recommend you check out the wiki or contact the Greyhole author in the Greyhole subject area for guidance. Other users may give you some insight, but it may be a few days.

(You should have posted this in the Greyhole forum; I don't monitor other Amahi forums, and almost didn't see your post. Moved.)

1. During install, choose 'expert' mode when you're at the step to create partitions on your system drive. This will let you specify the size of the / partition, and allow you to use the rest of the drive to create a new partition. This is done in a graphical (Fedora) installer.

2. Not during installation no. In fact, it's easier if they are not even connected when you install Fedora & Amahi.
To install the drives: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Adding_ ... o_your_HDA
Some of it is using graphic calls (like gparted to prepare your disk), some is command line, like the part about making the partition available on boot.
All this should become part of the Amahi web UI in the future.

3 & 4. http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Greyhole
All through web UI.

5. See link in 2 above.

6. From the command line: greyhole --going=/some/drive
Should become part of the Amahi web UI in the future.

7. See 6 above, then 2 above. (i.e. remove then add)

9. At it's root, Greyhole is targeted for advanced Linux users.
The integration Amahi did eases some of the management, like it doesn't require you to edit the greyhole.conf file manually, instead it gives you a web UI to manage that, but you still have to do some manual work to add or remove drives. There are plans to make those manual steps part of the web UI, but it's not there you.