SOLVED:Disks nolonger appear on device tab in the dash board

[berniev]

Thanks for the reply.

I have installed the Disk Stats application as part of the reinstall.

Both the partition tab and the stats tab operate just fine.

Here is my thoughts.

Both the partitions tab and stats tab are looking at the partitions, so these tabs most likely get it's information from the fstab file or the initial information comes from there.

The device tab is looking at physical disks so it must be getting it's data from a smart utility since it provides temp data. So maybe that utility is not present. I think that that's where we need to focus our efforts.

I have installed smart utilities so that if there is an issue with one of my drives it will send me a local e-mail.

Also I have installed logwatch which send me a local e-mail every day about the status of my disk drives and other issues, because I'm retired I have time to check these emails daily.

Hopefully this information ring a bell with you.

[bigfoot65]

No it does not use smart utility for that tab. It finds disks based on them being in the /dev directory I believe.

I am looking for the code now that generates that tab, but I am confident there is nothing extra that needs installed to make it work.

[berniev]

Thanks for all your help.

I finally reinstalled Amahi from scratch.

Everything is running so all is well.

I dis noticed that the migration document could lead to some difficulty for the people that may not type well.

you state to edit the fstab;
Then "Append entries the end of the file as noted in the fstab section of the migration text. For example"
I would venture that this could be a difficult task for some people, like newbies since at this stage there would not be a way to cut and past from the console.

I suggest the following;

Before booting the system with the disk connected install VNC and verify that you can make a connection.

Then copy the "hda_production_migration.txt" from a PC to the document share on the Amahi system, that way it would be available when you log in via VNC. This relies on the fact that you copied the "hda_production_migration.txt" to a PC after running running the f19_hda_migration.sh on the old Amahi system.

Now go ahead in reboot with all the disks connected.

When the boot is complete log into the system via VNC.

Now you can use cut and paste to edit the fstab file by bringing up the "hda_production_migration.txt" in gedit and then open a terminal session, su to root and edit the file using vi or nano (that is what I use). Then a cut and paste would be possible between gedit and the text editor in the terminal session.

the above process may be a little rough around the edges but this worked for me.

Thanks again for all your help.

[bigfoot65]

Thanks for the feedback.

Not everyone wants to use VNC. I think using SSH might be more common and a simpler solution in my opinion.

I will try to add something to the tips area.

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