Partition drive after install

[erob0728]

I recently installed Amahi 6 using the Fedora 14 install DVD. Installation went fine and I can access the server from all machines on my network. During the install, my 500GB hardrive was partitioned - when checking storage from the hda panel, the drive shows two partitions (partition1 - 49GB, partition2 - 450GB). When trying to move files to the server, I am given a space limitation error and cannot seem to access the 450GB partition. Is there a way to delete the second parttion and have system files and shared files (music, docs, etc.) on the same partition? Thank you.

[radioz]

Open up a terminal on your hda and type: df -h
Show us the output.
Can you paste a screen shot of your Storage/Partitions screen?

Do you know if you are using Greyhole?

[erob0728]

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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_hda-lv_root
50G 3.5G 44G 8% /
tmpfs 244M 260K 244M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 29M 431M 7% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_hda-lv_home
408G 214M 387G 1% /home


Above is the output of df -h on the hda.
Not sure about Greyhole. How can I check that?
Thank you for the quick reply.

[radioz]

Did you adjust anything related to drive partitioning during the install?

It's curious that your root partition ('/') is so small and your home partition is so big.

Amahi creates all of its shares in /var/hda/files (which is part of the '/' partition), so with such a small size, there isn't much room for data.

I can think of a couple of routes you could take to fix this.
1. Re-install and make sure that '/' gets most of the drive space. As long as you are using your hda as a server and not as a regular workstation for someone (you shouldn't), you don't need much space in /home.

2. If you know your way around Linux a bit you can set up a separate (large) partition or drive and mount it in /var/hda/files. That's what I do. Having a separate drive (or at least a separate partition) is good if your OS gets corrupted or the disk dies.

[bigfoot65]

Fedora 14 allocates most of the drive to the /home dir. Best to follow the wiki guidance to install without LVM. It gives a good partition size plan for install.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Install_without_LVM

[radioz]

Ah, I didn't think about the LVM install! I just finished my LVM install, but since I had a custom layout, I didn't see the suggested partition allocation.

[erob0728]

Reinstalled without LVM and drive is partitioned correctly now. Thanks again.

[bigfoot65]

Awesome. We probably should add something to the install instructions indicating this potential issue on use of drive space.