(SOLVED) 1 physical drive, 2 partitions seen as 2 greyhole..

[jbmia]

Running Amahi / Greyhole on Ubuntu...Question for the team..

I'm not sure how this happened, but in replacing a couple of drives I realized that I have a single 2TB physical drive that has 2 partitions, a 1.5TB and a .5TB partition. I do not recall why I didn't delete these two partitions and recreate a single partition when it was inserted into my greyhole storage pool. Today, both of these partitions are seen as different "drives" in greyhole. The obvious issue I can see is that if I'm utilizing greyhole "drives" for data redundancy and this single physical drive fails and my 2 file copies are on these two greyhole "drives", I've lost my data.

So... what I'd like to do is a "greyhole --going" on the 500gb partition... I've read elsewhere, outside the amahi / greyhole ecosystem, that I can go into "disk utility" and delete the 500gb partition and then just extend the 1.5TB partition without data loss.

My questions for the team are:

Will this present any issues with greyhole and the data on my 1.5TB partition?
If not, what steps/precautions should I take in this process?

I would imagine I might want to stop the greyhole service after the "greyhole --going" is complete and just prior to using disk utility to delete the 500gb partition and extend the 1.5 TB partition... Should I then unmount all drives, edit fstab, remount the drives, and then restart greyhole? Anything I"m missing?

Any input appreciated!!

[bigfoot65]

Your plan should work fine. There are various Greyhole command options you can use to reconstruct the drive properly. There's one for checking for broken links, missing files, etc.

[jbmia]

Yep, it seems to have to worked fine... Thanks. Used gparted for deleting the extra partition and extending the other one.

[bigfoot65]

Glad to hear it is resolved.