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Maybe I missed something in the wiki but my drives are not pooling together using greyhole. I added four 2tb disks the other day and they are all individual (disk1, disk2, disk3, disk4). Also in my HDA they show up like this.



I was under the impression that it would show up as "pool" and be one pie chart thats 8tb.

Sorry I am kind of new to all this

No, the pool does not show up as a pie chart. Did you enable pooling for each drive? If not, then you would need to do so via the dashboard to make it all work.

Thanks for replying

I went to advance settings and setup pooling here



How would I for example make my games folder here more than 1.8tb by pooling one or more of my other drives?

The idea behind Greyhole is to have all your shares on 1 drive, and use the others in the pool for redundency. Typically the shares on the OS drive in /var/hda/files directory. The drives located in /var/hda/files/drives are the pool ones.

I always set mine to max so that I have copes on all drives.

so doing something like this with greyhole is impossible ?



I just want large shares higher than 1.8tb. Sorry if you explained this already and I am just not getting it.

Not sure I understand. If you want your drives pooled for storage and not redundancy, then you need to use LVM. That is the native way with Fedora.

Greyhole is meant to be similar to a software RAID, keeping multiple copies of files on your HDA. Basically, 1 file per drive if you set it to max and have more than 1 drive in the pool.

It sounds like you are not looking for that type of storage. You can find guidance by googling it or possible do it using WebMin app.

I want to have a share that is larger than a 2tb drive.

Example: I have 3tb of movies. Instead of making two shares MoviesA and MoviesB to store everything in I want to combine two 2tb drives into a 4tb share called Movies. All the while using greyhole to have redundancy across all the other drives/shares I have.

Really sorry if I am not being clear. I really appreciate you trying to help me.

You can use LVM to combine multiple drives into one logical volume.

If you want redundancy, you can also use LVM to set up a RAID configuration.
That's what I've done on my machine.

Thanks radioz really appreciate it.

The idea behind Greyhole is to have all your shares on 1 drive, and use the others in the pool for redundency.

Not.
Greyhole can pool as many drives as you'd like, and give you one big share, with or without redundancy.
If you don't want redundancy, you just specify Extra copies = 0 (- I think in the drop-down menu in Amahi).

Typically the shares on the OS drive in /var/hda/files directory. The drives located in /var/hda/files/drives are the pool ones.

By default, /var/hda/files is what is called the landing zone, i.e. where the files end up when you copy them into share handled by Greyhole.
At that point, the Greyhole daemon will pick that file copy, and MOVE it into one of the drives you included in your pool, and leave behind only a symlink that takes next to no space.

How would I for example make my games folder here more than 1.8tb by pooling one or more of my other drives?

Add all your /var/hda/drives/driveXYZ to the storage pool, and check the "Uses Greyhole" for the share you want to use the pool.
If you connect to those shares from a remote computer, and check how much free space the share has, you'll see it has the sum of all the free space of the pooled drives.