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

[berniev]

I needed to reinstall amahi 7 on my system from scratch. Since the reinstall no disks drives show up in the device tab under the Disks tab. Also before I reinstalled there was a tab to format a disk and set the mount point.

Can any give me information on how to get these funcions back?

Thanks in advance for any information

[bigfoot65]

You will need to follow adding a second hard drive guidance in the wiki.

Also before I reinstalled there was a tab to format a disk and set the mount point.

There has never been anything in the Amahi dashboard for formatting drives or setting the mount point. There may have been in the Fedora OS installation if that is what you meant. We are working on the Amahi Disk Wizard application, but it's still not ready for production use.

Might I recommend you use the HDA OS Migration Guide in the future if you need to reinstall Amahi 7. It is fairly comprehensive and will help make the reinstall less painful.

[berniev]

Thanks for the quick reply

When I reinstalled I did follow the migration plan, and my HDA is running just fine.

I do believe that the Disk Wizard was in stalled about the same time the 7.4 update was installed. But I can wait for the released version. In the mean time if I need to add a disk I know how to do it, all though I am prone to fat fingers sometime.

I was really wondering why none of my disk don't show up in Devices tab on the Dashboard.

I have five disks on my system and two of those are running under greyhole.

Any Ideas ?

[bigfoot65]

When I reinstalled I did follow the migration plan, and my HDA is running just fine.

Good to hear it helped. I spent a lot of time documenting the process and building the script.

I do believe that the Disk Wizard was in stalled about the same time the 7.4 update was installed.

The Disk Wizard app was available briefly, but pulled due to some issues. You must have installed it during that time frame. It is not automaticl in Amahi, but an app you had to purchase and install from the app store.

I was really wondering why none of my disk don't show up in Devices tab on the Dashboard.

Did you mount all the drives using the hda-diskmount script? If not, then they will not work properly with Greyhole nor be recognized in the dashboard.

[berniev]

Thanks for your reply.

I didnot us the hda-diskmount script.

I have set up my HDA with a VNC connection and runing the Gnome3 desktop. I used the the Graphical tools (Disks) to setup my disk configuration as it was before with the information provided by the migration script. I install the Greyhole UI and configured it using the migration migration script information as well.

Everything is working as it should except not showing the devices in the dashboard.

I did run the hda-diskmount and it showed the disk mounted and in use.

Just to explain my experience with UNIX/Linux I have been working on UNIX systems since 1982. I will admit I am far from beining an expert but I do know my way arount a shell script.

here is my fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue Sep 16 16:42:00 2014
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=8b37c4ef-61ef-454f-89ec-fab3d95d6309 / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=10058b84-cd1d-4ef2-a83c-e0e8daf6caf9 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=d97e98a0-1bcf-4ccf-b025-ab2efb67853b /home ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=3306d84f-b7e5-4184-a8c8-81e5214c959f /var/hda/files ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=e3ca6b4c-77b6-41b4-9626-f5ba0e45a441 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=ECBE7401BE73C31E /backup auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 1 2
UUID=c9aeaa65-68f0-452d-9e6c-221435bc2863 /var/hda/files/backup ext4 nosuid,nodev,nofail 1 2
UUID=b686f77a-2507-432e-b59a-559bd0bc7041 /var/hda/drives/disk1 ext4 nosuid,nodev,nofail 1 2
UUID=1e58e2e9-c361-4511-bd86-941cebdba99f /var/hda/drives/disk2 ext4 nosuid,nodev,nofail 1 2


as you can see there are no mounts in /var/hda/files/disks.
Is this the issue since BASEDIRECTORY in your hda-diskmount script usees /var/hda/files/disks as the varaible.
There no files in this directory.

Maybe there a permission issue here since this is common issue with UNIX/Linux systems.

I know this seems trival but I do use the dashboard to provide me disk info on the temp.

Any thoughts?

[bigfoot65]

I didnot us the hda-diskmount script.

This is your issue. Amahi requires you use that script to properly mount disks unless you are an expert and know the proper location.

as you can see there are no mounts in /var/hda/files/disks.
Is this the issue since BASEDIRECTORY in your hda-diskmount script usees /var/hda/files/disks as the varaible.
There no files in this directory.

Recommend you unmount the drives, remove them from the /etc/fstab and use the hda-diskmount script.

By not following the instructions for adding disks, you could cause other issues with Amahi. Best to follow the documented guidance to minimize problems.

[berniev]

Thanks for the advice

I did what you suggested the issue still exist.

you also mentioned in your last post that there were other potential issues that not could arise by not following the migrate processes. Could you explain.

[bigfoot65]

What I meant was not following the guidance for adding disks could cause issues. If you are still experiencing problems, then something is still not right in your setup.

Post the lines from /etc/fstab that you added using the hda-diskmount script. We can then see if there is something there causing the problem.

[berniev]

Thanks for the reply

I amstarting to beleive the the only way to fix this is a compleate install from scratch.

Here is the fstab file.

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue Sep 16 16:42:00 2014
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=8b37c4ef-61ef-454f-89ec-fab3d95d6309 / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=10058b84-cd1d-4ef2-a83c-e0e8daf6caf9 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=d97e98a0-1bcf-4ccf-b025-ab2efb67853b /home ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=3306d84f-b7e5-4184-a8c8-81e5214c959f /var/hda/files ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=e3ca6b4c-77b6-41b4-9626-f5ba0e45a441 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=b686f77a-2507-432e-b59a-559bd0bc7041 /var/hda/drives/drive1 ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=1e58e2e9-c361-4511-bd86-941cebdba99f /var/hda/drives/drive2 ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=ECBE7401BE73C31E /backup ntfs-3g rw,user,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,uid=500,gid=100,noatime 1 2
UUID=c9aeaa65-68f0-452d-9e6c-221435bc2863 /var/hda/files/backup ext4 nosuid,nodev,nofail 1 2

There are five disks in my system two for greyhole and two I use for backing up PCs and another to backup my music and pictures shares.

When I installed I partitioned the drive instead of taking the defaults to acomidate a larger /var/hda/files area instead of putting a large partition under the home directory. This made sense to me.

Since everything seems to be working reinstalling from scratch is a bit of an overkill

Thanks or your help

[bigfoot65]

I am starting to believe the the only way to fix this is a complete install from scratch.

You may be right, but that would only be if something did not install correctly to begin with. Recommend you try installing the Disk Stats application and see if that makes a difference.

If it shows the partitions, then we know it's something with the installation. If not, then there may be something else wrong. I would like to figure out the root cause vs a reinstall if possible.