After struggling more with this, i realized that it really wasnt working. The problem was that for what ever reason my drive partition was not showing up here
/dev/disk/by-id/xxxxxxxxx-part1 name.
I could see the drive:
/dev/disk/by-id/xxxxxxxxx-part name
but not the partition.
So what i ended up doing is using fdisk to delete and recreate the partition. (dont think that was necessary)
Formatted it in the ext3 format with the label app_drive
added this to my go file:
#Mount app_drive
mkdir /mnt/app_drive
mount -L app_drive /mnt/app_drive
mount -o remount,rw /mnt/app_drive 2>&1
(the mount commands were copied from what unmenu does when mounting drives, not sure if the second mount command is necessary or if it can be consolidated into the first)
added this to my smb-extra.conf:
[app_drive]
path = /mnt/app_drive
comment = App Drive
browseable = yes
# Public
public = yes
writeable = yes
Joe, it seems in the version of unraid i have the smb-extra.conf is persistent so appending the code everytime was duplicating on every boot.
after a few reboots to verify it was working, i installed sab and sickbeard and setup an install and data directory on the app_drive, finally working. Thanks for all the help.