PattyTeacher

> Look through the syslog, it should indicate the device names and exact sizes. Though that information is available through the UI dashboard too. What's the easiest/quickest way to find the syslog? I don't see it anywhere in the UI dashboard. It's best to tell *HOW* to find something... not just "go find it.... it'll be there". Where?

> No, they all will have the same exact capacity, brand/model doesn't matter, except some drives that come from USB enclosures. I'm not sure how all manufacturers in the world, for all the drive models, would all make them *EXACT* the same size for all their 4TB drives. All the same number of platters, all the same number of sectors, all the same 'bytes per sector', same storage density, all CMR, all SMR, etc. I'm sure "some" would be a few bytes (or kbytes) bigger or smaller. I have no idea why the same drive put "inside" a computer, would be a different size than the ones they put into "external cases". Do they have totally different assembly-lines making "drives for inside computers" VS "drives for external cases"?

I have three 4TB drives. Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba. Even though they are all labeled/sold as "4TB drives"... they are each probably slightly different sizes around 3.6TB or 3.7TB as "usable space". I want to use 1 of them as a parity drive. What's the easiest way to find the largest one? Or does it really not matter since they are all labeled 4TB? Can a drive that is 0.001% smaller be used as a parity drive for a one that is 0.001% larger than it? Can I trust the manufacture's "claimed true size"?

Can I (or someone) fully correct the text? The exact steps for the fix (with the correct "AND" and "OR" in between the steps).... Separated from the "how to avoid this" list... again explaining if ALL those steps need to be done... or some... or just one. Currently, it can be misunderstood in MANY different ways.... further damaging things that it's suppose to be fixing.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. That seems to have worked. Note to other people that have this problem: On the link, bullet points #1 and #2 are the "fix". (You'll need to do both steps, in order.) Bullet points #3-6 are "how to avoid this in the future". (You'll need to avoid doing ANY of those. They don't need to be done in sequence.) Currently all 6 points are grouped in 1 list and just marked that they are all "work-arounds". (They aren't) Also, the word "coy" really means "copy".

Looks like exactly what happened to me. That link looks like "how to avoid the problem in the future". But I need to know "what to do to FIX the existing problem I already have". Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure what I did wrong, but after my first attempt at moving files using Krusader, something is not right. I'll tell you what I had before the move... and what I have now... and you tell me where it all went so wrong. I had a 5GB file inside a MyDownloads folder (set to Cache:preferred) I moved (not copied) it to MyMovies folder (set to Cache:No) The move happened instantly. I now can see the file in MyMovies, as expected. And MyDownloads apparently now has 0 files, as expected. UnRaid's Main screen still shows several GB of 'used space' that it shouldn't have. UnRaid's Share screen shows MyMovies still has some 'unprotected' files on the cache. (Even though it doesn't use any cache drive at all.) What happened and (more importantly) how do I fix this?