Booting Into Emergency Mode

[tomtheappraiser]

OK, if I were to reinstall the OS, would I lose all of my data that is currently greyholed on those three drives?

[bigfoot65]

No as long as they are physically disconnected during reinstall.

There is an HDA OS Migration Guide for Amahi 7 in the wiki that might help.

[tomtheappraiser]

I was going to just reinstall the OS when I went to the HDA in command and it had booted into normal mode with all of the other drives commented out. So I started only commenting them out one at a time and found which one is the bad disk (or at least won't allow it to boot).
How do you suggest I proceed?

[bigfoot65]

Is the bad drive fairly new? If not, might just want to get a new one.

You can use the HDA without it and just do:

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greyhole -f

to get things moving again. Make sure you remove it from your greyhole.conf file as well.

You may have to run a Greyhole command to tell it the drive is gone and remove the entries pointed to that drive.

[tomtheappraiser]

OK, I'm going to order a new drive, will I lose any of my data in Greyhole if I remove that drive? If not, I could really use access to that data while I wait for the new drive to come in.

[bigfoot65]

As long as that drive did not hold the single copy of a file.

[tomtheappraiser]

How would I know that? Is there a way to check? I thought the pool shared the files over all of the drives.
I guess no matter what, since the drive is failing I have to make the leap right?

[bigfoot65]

Well if you have max copies set for the shares, then there are other copies of the files on that drive.

Otherwise, yea copies could be on that drive ONLY.