ClearFoundation

Hi

I made a Flexshare folder and the folder is mounted on the wrong partition!!!!
If i look at the free space i see only < 50GB

If i look at the user folder i see > 730GB.

Thus, the home folder is on the right partition, how is this posible...
Clear OS version = 6.2 community

Screenshot
www.bramcam.nl/Clear-Error-01.jpg




PS
a screenshot of the fstab file

www.bramcam.nl/fstab-clearos-62.jpg

It is a clean install only Windows file sharing and VPN, Role = simple Fileserver/Gateway

Kind regarts,
Bram

Someone else reported this problem, the LVM volume is divided heavily in favour of the home mount point, rather than the root drive. In ClearOS most of the files are stored in /var/flexshares and so this doesn't work so well...

I just checked my VM and it only created a single lv_root volume, and not lv_home...what options did you choose during install?

Hi Tim,

I used the default partitioning, alway used it this way, and if ClearOS/Clarkconnect now change this without telling the user this its pritty stupid!!
I lost more than a days work on this problem, installed 3 machiene's


Kind regarts,
Bram

Hmm, on my VM install it only has the lv_root volume, and on my production box it was configured manually... i'm going to reinstall to see if I can spot why its different

In the meantime i've raised a bug here
tracker.clearfoundation.com/view.php?id=704

Hi Tim,

I installed today 2 times version 6.2.

The first one with only 25GB harddisk space, everyhing OK

The second one with 300GB harddisk space, Bingo!!! second partition.

I hope that you can help me

Kind regarts,
Bram

Hi Bram,

I am also suffering from this problem, i found the following link which might help

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28122/c...einstalling-linux-or

The link explains how to shrink the /home volume and increase the root volume, i haven't tried it yet though as the system i am having problems is in a live environment and i want to gain more information before attempting it. If anyone has a test system and wouldn't mind trying the above mentioned fix then that would be great.

Best wishes

Ste

I'll try and find out why this is happening. There is a workaround for this but it requires some command line work. I know that Peter and I have been working to make a method whereby the OS is largely located on '/' and all other data devices are located in '/store'. For example, if you have additional partitions, NAS devices, USB attached storage, iSCSI SAN or what have you, then you simply mount all of this data in /store. (data0, usb0, iscsi0, iscsi1, et al.)

From here you bind mount the data to the new drive. This is a workaround but I will have a guide tomorrow written up to resize your LVM on ClearOS. The beauty of LVM is that you can shrink and grow the partitions. Until then (and even if you do the LVM thing) you might want to consider making the data structure you need in the /home partition and then simply bindmounting it over to /var/flexshare/shares.

www.clearfoundation.com/docs/developer/a...ized_user_data/start

Hi Dave / tim,

We have reverted back to 5.2, we felt that 6.2/6.3 is still far too buggy to be used in a real live environment, there are still a lot of bugs and problems being reported and ironed out, today we came into the office to find the installtion of 6.3 that had been working fine for the last few days had failed all of its own accord it was loaded into the clearos screen but with a load of garbled text on the screen, when i left last night it was fine, upon a reboot the same garbled text screen appeared and the installation would not recover, I popped the trusty old 5.2 hard drives back in and within the hour everyone was back online, there are a lot of features still to be implimented in 6.3 even somthing as simple as trying to change a dynamic ip to a static Ip in the DHCP section was impossible as it wouldnt stay static, the content filter was blocking things out even though it was turned off, the obvious major problem with the partition sizes and the general feeling of instablily was just too great for us at this stage, i think we will probably hang on another 6 - 12 months before using 6.3.

I think its a good outlook for the future and once the initial hicups are solved it will be a great piece of software but at the moment its just a little too experimental for us,

Best wishes

Stephen

Hi Dave , Tim, Stephen,

I am glad I'am not the only who think that version 6.3 far from ready...
I shared my feelings already about the problem somewhere else on the forum.

The big problem is how long wil there be updates for version 5.2?

The 3 machines with 6.3 i wil reinstall with 5.2 and wait for a year or so and see how version 6.3 is doing.
I hope ClearOS finnish this version before doing already 6.4!!!!!

Sorry, i find it a little mess...

Kind regarts,
Bram

Sorry it didn't work out... thanks for the feedback it helps improve things. I'm a bit disappointed though because I know how much effort has gone into 6.x and making it a good user experience, the developers can only fix what is reported during the beta testing....

From the limited responses on the topic it's not a common problem...I can't replicate it here on my fresh VM install.

However I did find this post, which suggests its not specifically a ClearOS issue...there are also steps to rectify the situation by shrinking and growing the relevant volumes if you are inclined.
serverfault.com/questions/370847/decreas...oup-increase-another