A Bit Info About My System
I have 4 hard drives in my box:
- • Drive 1 contains the OS and the usual OS partitions, in addition to a 200 GB partition called /scratch used as a landing zone for new downloads and disc rips. (It is not setup as a Greyhole landing zone)
• Drives 2+3 are combined into a 2.5 TB large volume group that mounts at /var/hda/files and was part of the Greyhole storage pool.
• Drive 4 is 2 TB and mounts at /var/hda/files/bigdrive and was part of the Greyhole storage pool.
Currently, the Samba and Greyhole servers are turned off.
First Issue (the larger headache, but largely resolved)
Drive 4 was hooked up via a PCI-SATA control card that crapped-out and in the process royally messed up the filesystem, created bad sectors, etc. Long story short, I've recovered 99.8% of the files and file structure onto a new drive of identical capacity which has replaced the old one in the box. The caveat is that some of the recovered files had been recently deleted, renamed or moved to different directories but were recovered as they previously where, so the new file structure doesn't 100% match what is was before the drive failure. The new drive is mounted at /var/hda/files/bigdrive.
Second Issue (the smaller but more confusing one)
I recently learned that one shouldn't add the /var/hda/files directory to the storage pool - even though it may seem right to do so and there are no warnings or preventative measures to stop someone from doing this. I had done this long ago and have a Greyhole folder with 2.0TB of files at /var/hda/files/gh
So, I want to re-integrate my Greyhole volumes and also fix the "don't use /var/hda/files" directory as a storage pool faux-pas – without endangering my files that I spent 9 days recovering.
Any suggests?