Storage Pool Config

[glenb83]

Hi all,

Im currently setting up my first Amahi server and excited at the prospects! I am a little confused about setting up the storage correctly though and hope you can help me.

I want to maximise the amount of storage I have to use for the greyhole storage pool. Problem is, when I installed Ubuntu/Amahi I used the whole hard drive and I'm not sure how to repartition the drive so that the remainder of it can be used as the landing zone (currently there is approx 5GB in use by the system, I would like to make it so there is say around 100GB available to the system, then the rest of the 2TB used as the landing zone for the pool). Or perhaps I don't need to repartition it, I can just use it?

I've included some screenshots and hope you guys can help me out!

[glenb83]

Here is the disk summary

[bigfoot65]

If your OS partition is the 2TB drive, then you have what the OS is not using for the landing zone. Unless you changed it, /var/hda/files would be the LZ.

In that case, I see no need to change anything.

[Phazer]

I came accross this same issue last night.

The way it's configured right now in the pool... that leaves 1.8 TB that isn't being used by samba because it's not checked? If you end up checking the / one it says it advises you not to... Isn there a way to install Ubuntu on a 200gb parition and then parition the rest of the 1.8tb drive to be used in samba?

[bigfoot65]

Yes you can resize partitions. You could also have done as you said and made a small partition for the OS and the rest for Greyhole. Only bad thing is the OS and one Greyhole copy will be on the same drive. If you don't use "Max Copies", there is a chance that you may lose files if the OS/Greyhole drive dies.

I always do max copies myself as if you have more than 1 Greyhole drive, seems foolish not to do it that way. Of course if you have too many files, I guess that could be a limiting factor.

[Phazer]

Which would be best? Just checking the box for greypool to use the / drive with the OS and everything or paritioning it out from the OS level?

I'm using max copies for the shared data as it makes the most sense

[bigfoot65]

I would think selecting the drive would be sufficient. That is providing you don't move 500gb of files at a time.

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