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I've added a 3tb USB drive to my server. I've added to my storage pool and have issued a balance command. However, after running overnight nothing has been moved to the new drive.

Is there a "trick" to using 3tb drives with Amahi?

Thanks in advance.

Check out the wiki. It might be helpful.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Partitions_Over_2.1_TB

Check out the wiki. It might be helpful.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Partitions_Over_2.1_TB

This is exactly what I followed to get the drive added. I then went to the SHARES tab on the web interface and added the drive to my pool.

Do I have to do anything after that?

I would not think so. From command line, you can do greyhole -f and see if that yields any results. Check the /var/log/greyhole.log for activity.

I would not think so. From command line, you can do greyhole -f and see if that yields any results. Check the /var/log/greyhole.log for activity.

I'll put off running an fsck as one ran last night and it took 4 1/2 hours. But I looked at the log and no errors were reported.

While in the log I looked at the balancing I tried to run this morning and found the following excerpt:

Nov 10 08:44:36 7 sleep: Nothing to do... Sleeping.
Nov 10 08:44:38 6 balance: Optimizing MySQL tables...
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Now working on task ID 222339: balance /
Nov 10 08:44:46 6 balance: Starting available space balancing
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Balancing share: Music
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive14/gh (-1.42TB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive14/gh (-1.42TB available)
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive12/gh (62.5GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive12/gh (62.5GB available)
Nov 10 08:44:46 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/drives/drive1/gh (63.8GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/drives/drive1/gh (63.8GB available)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive10/gh (64.2GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive10/gh (64.2GB available)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive13/gh (65.5GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive13/gh (65.5GB available)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive11/gh (66.0GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive11/gh (66.0GB available)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive8/gh (66.2GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive8/gh (66.2GB available)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /gh (66.2GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /gh (66.2GB available)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive6/gh (66.4GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Found 0 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Done balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive6/gh (66.4GB available)
Nov 10 08:44:47 7 balance: Balancing storage pool directory: /var/hda/files/drives/drive5/gh (66.6GB available, target: -60.9GB)
Nov 10 08:44:48 7 balance: Found 1162 files that can be moved.
Nov 10 08:44:48 7 balance: Working on file: Music/Songs/Rock/Matthews, Dave Band/Live In Chicago 12.19.98/02 - The Last Stop.mp3 (12.7MB)
Nov 10 08:44:48 7 balance: Drives with available space: /var/hda/files/drives/drive7/gh (66.7GB avail) - /var/hda/files/drives/drive5/gh (66.6GB avail) - /var/hda/files/drives/drive9/g$
Nov 10 08:44:48 7 balance: Reordered drives, per sticky_files config: /var/hda/files/drives/drive5/gh - /gh - /var/hda/drives/drive1/gh - /var/hda/files/drives/drive7/gh - /var/hda/fil$
Nov 10 08:44:48 7 balance: Sticky file is already where it should be. Skipping.

The sixth line reports the new drive (drive14) as having negative space available. That can't be right, can it?

Any other ideas from this info?

Thanks in advance,
Richard

That is odd. I presumed you formatted the drive and it reported usable space. Maybe do a df -h and see what it reports.

That is odd. I presumed you formatted the drive and it reported usable space. Maybe do a df -h and see what it reports.

Here's what I get

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 1.8T 1.7T 87G 96% /
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 194M 24M 161M 13% /boot
/dev/sdb1 1.8T 1.7T 69G 97% /var/hda/drives/drive1
/dev/sdp1 1.8T 1.7T 71G 96% /var/hda/files/drives/drive5
/dev/sdo1 1.8T 1.7T 70G 97% /var/hda/files/drives/drive6
/dev/sdj1 1.8T 1.7T 71G 96% /var/hda/files/drives/drive7
/dev/sdk1 917G 802G 69G 93% /var/hda/files/drives/drive8
/dev/sdp1 1.8T 1.7T 71G 96% /var/hda/files/drives/drive9
/dev/sdm1 917G 799G 72G 92% /var/hda/files/drives/drive10
/dev/sdn1 917G 800G 72G 92% /var/hda/files/drives/drive11
/dev/sdc1 917G 798G 73G 92% /var/hda/files/drives/drive12
/dev/sde1 688G 581G 72G 89% /var/hda/files/drives/drive13
/dev/sdd1 2.8T 201M 2.6T 1% /var/hda/files/drives/drive14

The last one is the drive in question 2.8T 201M used.

Still appreciating the help.
Thanks.
Richard

Any other thoughts, guesses, shots-in-the-dark? I'm quite anxious to resolve this to eliminate the low space condition on my other drives. Each of the other drives have under 200gig of available storage and my total space is only about 800gig. Adding 3tb would really help.

Thanks yet again for your help.
Richard.

What about splitting he 3TB drive into 2 partitions. Them mount each separately. Should not have to do that, but thought it was worth mentioning.

What about splitting he 3TB drive into 2 partitions. Them mount each separately. Should not have to do that, but thought it was worth mentioning.

I'll give that a try. I guess it won't matter once the separate partitions are added back to the storage pool.

Thanks.