How to use only the 2nd drive for user data

[hermanvh]

In my core I have 2 hard drives, the first one is used for the OS.
The 2nd drive is auto detected and has the LMCE directory structure.
I want the exposed samba shares point to the 2nd drive only, so users use the 2nd drive only.

I modified /etc/samba/smb.conf to do this which work fine, but this gets reset to the default configuration after a reboot (which I expected).

Any suggestions how let users (through samba) only access the 2nd drive?

Best regards,

Herman

[purps]

Have you been finding that LMCE is using your OS drive and your OS drive only? I believe that LMCE is set up to just use the drive with the largest amount of free space. I have the same set up as you (hard drive wise) and have never had to manually alter anything.

[hermanvh]

Purps,

Thanks for your reply.
Linuxmce will use the largest disk, so no issue there.
But the users access the samba shares through there private pc's (laptops), if they are not carefull they store the data on the OS drive.
The user sees the following directory structure when accessing a samba share:

share --- videos ---- Media [39]     (my 2nd drive)
           |             +- Other subdirs
           |
           - music ----- Media [39]
           |             +- Other subdirs
          etc..

If data is not stored in Media [39] it does not end up on the 2nd drive.

I modified smb.conf to point to   /mnt/dev/Media [39]/user_1/data in stead of /home/user_1/data
which does what I need, but will get reset after a reboot.


How are you keeping user data seperate from the OS disk?

Best regards
Herman

[purps]

Sorry mate, I didn't read your post properly.

When I browse the files on the core through other PCs, I access the folders through "public" rather than individual user folders, and at some point (in "videos", "audio" I think?) you reach a symlink which links to the folder on the 2nd hard drive. So not sure I can help you.

[ladekribs]

Hi,

If your users run windows You can map the share to a drive letter in explorer


BR Stefan

[purps]

I believe you can do a similar thing in ubuntu as well, by adding a "bookmark" in the side pane (assuming you are using nautilus, although I am sure it's a similar thing for other file browsers).

[tschak909]

Hermanvh, Please do not modify the samba configuration unless you know what you are doing. You will break the storage layer in spectacular ways, and I have half a mind to slap you silly.

Your samba changes will be overwritten at some point later, as this system is a self repairing appliance.

-Thom

[DragonK]

Hi Hermanvh,

I have a similar setup,
80Gb primary HDD --> OS
1.5TB Secondary HDD --> Media

Cant remember off hand how I got it working, but I didnt have to edit any config files,
I added yhe second HDD after the install of Linuxmce was completed. Then the orbiter on my Core/Hybrid came up and asked if I want to use the second HDD. If I recall corectly I chose as "FileServer Storage" or something similar.
After this was done I was able to browse to my Core from a WinXP pc and just map it to a network drive.

Im not at home at the moment, but will test it later and post my findings.

Karel