Install partitioning with Greyhole in mind.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:58 am
I've posted this on the beginners forum but thought I might get a quicker response here. I have my new kit here screaming to be installed and used...
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I am installing Amahi for the first time (for real, as opposed to some test installs).
I have 5 Hard Disks in my system.
A 500Gb disk which I want to be the OS/Boot/Swap/Root/Home - I think that's right. Basically everything that won't by my Data files. I want this disk to run the apps I have installed (i.e. SickBeard, SABNZBD, Couch Potato, Transmission) and be the one disk spinning most of the time. It needs to hold some storage as well, i.e. NZBs that are downloaded which will be moved to the data drives when the scripts finish.
I then have 4 x 2Tb drives that I want to be my Data storage and I think Greyhole running over them. I am assuming this is where /var/hda/files will be mounted.
The question I have is that I am getting confused at the storage area with physical LVMs, LVM groups, Standard Partions etc.
I can follow the instructions and get what I want on the 500Gb OS drive, but I can't seem to work out how to make the rest of the drives one logical volume that will work nicely with Amahi. I could go trial and error but any pointers that will have me a few reinstalls would be dead handy.
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So basically, how do I do the initial partitions so that /var/hda/files ends up only on the 4 x 2TB drives, with Greyhole on them, and everything else (swap, root, homes etc) end up on the single 500gb drive.
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I am installing Amahi for the first time (for real, as opposed to some test installs).
I have 5 Hard Disks in my system.
A 500Gb disk which I want to be the OS/Boot/Swap/Root/Home - I think that's right. Basically everything that won't by my Data files. I want this disk to run the apps I have installed (i.e. SickBeard, SABNZBD, Couch Potato, Transmission) and be the one disk spinning most of the time. It needs to hold some storage as well, i.e. NZBs that are downloaded which will be moved to the data drives when the scripts finish.
I then have 4 x 2Tb drives that I want to be my Data storage and I think Greyhole running over them. I am assuming this is where /var/hda/files will be mounted.
The question I have is that I am getting confused at the storage area with physical LVMs, LVM groups, Standard Partions etc.
I can follow the instructions and get what I want on the 500Gb OS drive, but I can't seem to work out how to make the rest of the drives one logical volume that will work nicely with Amahi. I could go trial and error but any pointers that will have me a few reinstalls would be dead handy.
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So basically, how do I do the initial partitions so that /var/hda/files ends up only on the 4 x 2TB drives, with Greyhole on them, and everything else (swap, root, homes etc) end up on the single 500gb drive.