SOLVED: Root partition full?

[strelniece]

I get a notice that I'm running out of space and my root partition is full. What I can see, the problem is that it somehow includes my external drive in the root... I hope the pictures will explain better...
Do I have to change the mounting point? because obviously I do have space...
Any help/suggestions

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[bigfoot65]

Your root partition is about 50GB, so not enough space for all your files it appears. The additional disk is mounted as it should and not part of root. However if you are not using Greyhole, then you might need to point your shares to the secondary disk which is sdb1.

If you are using Greyhole, then the root partition is your landing zone. It will fill up quickly if you move a lot of files. You can change it by following guidance in the wiki.

[strelniece]

ah, I think

I'm not using greyhole. I installed amahi for the first time just a couple of weeks ago and haven't had the time to install it yet since it seems to be a bit of fiddeling included. So I should either change the mounting point of /hda/files or install Greyhole?

[bigfoot65]

That is one option. You can also move the /var/hda/files/sharename to the other disk and change the path in the Shares tab. Using Greyhole is up to you. If you are not concerned about redundancy or pooling drives, then don't need it.

[strelniece]

now this is where I'm either more confused than normal (and since I'm on heavy meds at the moment, thats plausable...) or I'm understanding how amahi works...

this is the reason I haven't installed greyhole yet, waiting for the GUI...

but if I do understand it, the dev/mapper/fedora-home partition is not a part of the Amahi installation (it's the same hard drive as amahi is installed on) meaning it should be added as a partition on its own?

I did look in to greyhole a little and this is kind of where I got confused, but can I use dev/mapper/fedora-home directly or does it need to be mounted in //hda

its how to get it right in fstab that I'm not sure about, right now it says
/dev/mapper/fedora-home /home ext4 defaults 1 2

can I just change it to
/dev/mapper/fedora-home /var/hda/files/drives/drive1 ext4 defaults 1 2

and then add it to the grayhole poole?

hope I make sense

[bigfoot65]

but if I do understand it, the dev/mapper/fedora-home partition is not a part of the Amahi installation (it's the same hard drive as amahi is installed on) meaning it should be added as a partition on its own?

It is a separate partition, but where all the users directories and files live. If you move it, you will break the OS and Amahi.

In order to resolved your issue, it would make more sense to move your larger shares from /var/hda/files to /var/hda/files/drives/drive3. No fstab work needed, just relocate them and change the path in the shares tab accordingly.

If you want a smaller /home partition, then you will need to resize it using a disk partition utility or should have made it smaller when doing the initial install.

I would keep it simple and just move files to the larger drive.

[strelniece]

That solved it and regarding Greyhole I'll await the GUI or my brain back to normal, which ever comes first...

tanks, if nothing else it gave me some more insight to the inner workings of amahi