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I am having issues with Greyhole. I have recently setup my first build. I installed greyhole and have tried to transfer files however everything transfers to the server root and nothing goes to the pooled drives. On the status for pooling greyhole says inactive and when i run fsck nothing happens.

Here is the info requested from troubleshoot:

fpaste /etc/samba/smb.conf
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/309651/25672731

fpaste /etc/greyhole.conf
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/309652/67451145

It's likely the space in your drive mount names. Linux does not play well with spaces in naming. You should change your mount names to be more like A_Drive vs A Drive. Stay away from multiple words as it keeps things simple and clean.

Also please attach files with text vs such a long post. Makes it easier for others to read and is good forum etiquette. Please revise your previous post.

Recommend you change the names and things will likely work. Most use a short name like sdb or drive1.

Ah ok, what would be the best way to go about that. I tried e2label but i it didnt seem to change anything.

How did you initially install and mount the drives?

I used the disk manager app.

Recommend you unmount the drives and then rename them. To do so, you would need to do in /etc/fstab and the /var/hda/files/drives folder.

Rename A Drive to A_Drive, etc. Then remount. You may want to remove them from the Greyhole storage pool first. Then once renamed and mounted, add them back. Greyhole should then see them correctly.

Make sense?

No not really lol im sorry i am new to linux only really having dabbled in it. I try to run /etc/fstab as root and i get permission denied. I am trying to find the answers in google but cant seem to track down what i need to do. Thanks for all your help so far by the way.

You will need to learn how to use command line and an editor, such as nano.

Based on your situation and inexperience with Linux, it would be best if you used LIVE support.

What you are doing with mounting drives and Greyhole is considered advanced and requires some Linux knowledge. We can only do so much in the forums, so the link above is the best avenue.

Thanks for your help Bigfoot. i used the wiki for adding hard drives and got nano installed and then realized it is used for local editing. I was able to change the partition labels and greyhole is currently doing its thing.

Awesome! I forgot about the manual drive stuff in the wiki. Good catch.

Will close this one as solved.