2 Drive Installation: 1 OS, 1 Data

[raifwrite]

Linux novice here moving away from WHS. I have a question that I can't quite figure out based on the installation instructions and forum posts. I am trying to install Amahi with 2 hard drives initially. The first drive is 40GB and the second is 2TB. I want to install just the OS on the 40GB drive, and all of the data on the 2TB. I am a bit unclear as to how to accomplish this as most everything I read says to install Amahi at first with only one drive connected.

The installation instructions read:

If you want all your data in a separate disk, mount it at
/var/hda/files/

, but I am not sure how to do this and whether or not this should be done after the OS install or during it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers.

[bigfoot65]

The second drive would be added after the OS and Amahi install. See the guidance in the wiki.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Adding_ ... o_your_HDA

[raifwrite]

So, I should not create the /var/hda/files/ partition on the first drive at all and just follow the directions for adding a second drive after Fedora and Amahi are installed? I'll give it a whirl.

[bigfoot65]

I would recommend you follow the later. You can mount the second drive as /var/hda/files, but that does not leave you a drive for Greyhole redundancy per say.

If you do not have more than 30GB of data files, I would leave the second drive for Greyhole and the OS drive will automatically handle the /var/hda/files.

[raifwrite]

Well, my intention was to add a third drive and have the Greyhole pool include the second and third drive for redundancy. Will that not work?

[bigfoot65]

Yes that will work.