Greyhole Configuration...think I've gone wrong!

[faulknerm]

Evening,

I finally got my HDA set up this evening, however I think I've gone wrong with the disk mounting configuration. It is working, however I don't think it will achieve what I'm looking for.

I have the following disk configuration set up -

250GB (Partitioned as 10GB for Swap, 40GB for / and 200GB for /var )
2TB (Single partition, blank formatted drive, mounted at /var/hda/files/drives/drive1)
2TB (Single partition, contains 450GB existing data, mounted at /var/hda/files)

I suspect that I should have the 200GB partition mounted at /var/hda/files so that this correctly acts as the LZ?

Ideally I'd like Greyhole to distribute the existing 450GB or so of data across the 2 drives in the pool as well, if this is possible? (Data is all currently on one drive, and I'd like it distributing evenly across both 2TB drives).


The data on the single drive is currently in individual directories for Movie, TV and Music and I have my shares configured to point to these folders (I.e. /var/hda/files/Movies). I have these shares mapped to a Windows machine and they all show up properly, and with the total pool capacity - however looking on the server I can see at 450GB of data is still on the single disk, with the other disk completely empty.

As I said, I think I've gone a bit wrong! What I get for reading several different guides all with different aims I guess...

Any pointers/suggestions to get me back on the right track would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Marc

[sgtfoo]

To have your existing data added, You need to mount the drive outside of Amahi/Greyhole and transfer it to locally mounted shares --- essentially as if the drive was external.

The other perhaps easier option is to take out the drive with the existing data and throw it into an interface and transfer the files via network (from another PC or locally) to mounted shares.

The only safe way to have Greyhole allocate your data to its pool is to transfer to the shares created from the dashboard.

Side note: you might also benefit from having your /home directory on your system drive mounted as a separate partition so that settings can carry over easier between upgrades. It doesn't need to be big.. 10 GBs is plenty unless you intend on using it for keeping stuff.