Damaged Hard Drive/Greyhole Rebuilding Help Needed

[x187dannyx]

Hey, i recently ran into some issues with my amahi install. I am currently not able to boot the system and after days of trying to figure out how to work around this i have decided it is time to jsut reinstall amahi from scratch.
My problem is, how wouldi be able to either
A)reinstall amahi and then rebuild greyhole shares from the files present (following something from http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 39&start=0 that i have been reading)
would i need to copy /var/hda files anywhere before reinstalling fedora, or will greyhole pick up files from the other drives and rebuild the shares?

My Disks are currently partitioned as such..

/dev/sda1 - !TB greyhole storage pool disk
/dev/sdb1 - /boot partition
/dev/sdb2 - / (fedora install and var folder stored here
/dev/sdb3 - 900GB greyhole storage pool disk
/dev/sdc1 - 500GB greyhole storage pool disk

Would i need to copy out the /var folder prior to reinstalling fedora or just go ahead and overwrite it, would greyhole pick up tombstones and other files from the 3 data pool partitions?

Or B) is there a way that i can copy all my shares content easily from a live CD (currently running live CD with chroot into my damaged install) but i cant figure out how to show all my shares in one folder, their all over the place.

Thanks for the help
(Sorry if its confusing, linux newbie here)

[ghstryder]

Here is a good place to start, I think it will answer most of your questions.
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Greyhol ... _.2F_Amahi

[lrevxl]

A friend of mine recently went through this. You can save the landing zone content only if you're absolutely POSITIVE that your pool drives will be mounted to the same location as they are now. Otherwise tombstones will be pointing to the wrong location for their files and an fsck would likely fail on a number of files. (The more drives in the pool, the more likely you'll run into the issue.) Otherwise you can do what my friend did, which is to add all the drives to greyhole in the new install, create the same shares again, and then run an fsck with the find-orphaned-files option. (That command will find all the files sitting in the share directories which have no tombstones.) So yes it's possible to rebuild your greyhole pool without recopying all the files, but it might take a little tweaking.