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Does it still hold true that if I want to disable mover on a schedule and just trigger it myself, I need to call /usr/local/sbin/mover.old start? I'm asking because I trigger the mover manually as a post-script for my backups. However, before disabling it running on a schedule, when I triggered the mover script it would log a bunch of settings, including the test mode being enabled etc. Now when I call mover.old, nothing happens besides it telling me to use start/stop arguments. So that has me a little confused and I just want to make sure I'm using it correctly.

This helped put me on the right path. Turns out I had been using the extended arr scripts in one container and thought it had been cleaned up, but evidently it was still running. That in conjunction with the script activating drive cache seems to have been what caused spinups by the looks of it. Parity has now been spun down for 5 hours.

I'll have to try and catch the exact moment that something writes to a disk. So far I've had no success with that. I have no VMs and have disabled SMB writes altogether for the time being. I've gone through all my containers to confirm they're on the cache drive (appdata) and none of them should be writing directly to the array, let alone by opening existing files and changing their content. The FileActivity plugin seems to have confirmed that, at least from what I've seen in several hours of monitoring. I may change some of my mounts to readonly to further narrow down the problem. I've looked my containers' log files and they all seem to be on the cache. The same goes for system log. I did find an old script that was running once every 6 hours that would turn on the cache for my old Adaptec HBA (which I don't have anymore). Since this has been disabled and doesn't run frequently enough to be the culprit, I don't think it's going to entirely fix my problem either. I'll try to monitor some more and see where that gets me.

But not writes to cache, right? So then why does my drive spin up when the only writes I can identify are to my cache? None of my drives have been written to according to the command I used above (i.e. file mod date). FileActivity shows nothing but MOD/ATTR for files on my cache. My cache drive will spin up, I can instantly spin it down again and it will continue to stay spun down for at LEAST an hour in most cases. I don't see how that's going to help. I already used FileActivity and it only shows open files. My problem is I need to know what is written to my data drives (and when) so I can identify why my parity drive refuses to stay spun down until the mover is triggered. I installed it just to have a look and it's way too many files - as expected.

I seed a lot, so often times my disks don't get a chance to spin down a lot. That by itself is expected - it's a bed I've made and I'm okay with it. However, I would expect at least my parity drive to stay spun down and it rarely does stay that way for longer than an hour. My docker image as well as all containers are on my the cache only. As far as I can tell, no files are written outside of /cache and/or /mnt/user/appdata. 'find /mnt/ -type f -mmin -10' hasn't really shown anything unexpected when the parity drive spins up. I've moved all my jobs to run at midnight so there should really not be writes and very few reads. I've used the FileActivity plugin as well and while there were a bunch of open files (reads) from backups running to Backblaze or Immich but no writes outside of the cache. What else can I do here? htpc-diagnostics-20250316-1918.zip

Janitorr - Clean up your media library This is the official support thread for Janitorr's official Unraid Community App. I ask that you please create an issue over at Github, rather than post here. You are much more likely to receive fast support. GitHub also makes it easier for me categorize and organize potential issues. If at all possible, this thread should be related to Unraid specific issues with Janitorr, like incorrect permissions or a template with fauly defaults. Needless to say, this thread is specifically only for issues with my template. Any other installations of Janitorr not maintained by me (the developer of Janitorr) will have to be ignored.

I had "Disable Mover running on a schedule" checked. This seems to break the functionality of just calling mover via the CLI. I never made the connection, but your examples helped me knowing what to look for. Now the real question is, how do I both disable the the regular mover schedule AND still trigger the mover manually? My best guess is that this plugin modifies the mover script to do nothing and then implements its own functionality. When disabling the schedule, how do I trigger what the plugin does via cli or the original mover script? Your help is much appreciated!

First of all, I'm sorry for hijacking this thread. I tried to find a solution in other threads, but everything seems outdated. I'm still on 6.11.5. I was looking to manually trigger the mover via cli/script and expected it to be blocking, so that I may shut down docker containers before running it so files won't be in use. There seem to be two problems where calling mover via ssh just seems to do nothing (no disk activity), using the GUI it does run but then calling mover stop does nothing again. What is the correct way (maybe the way this plugin does it) to call the mover? Can I just call one of the scripts the plugin uses and it will be blocking? I'd love to utilize the cache again, but unless I can get the mover to run after my nightly backup, I don't see another way of doing this atm.

Big thanks to you for creating this thread. It helped me choose the right controller without going way over budget or having to hope whatever comes from China in x months is genuine.

Wollt nochmal reinwerfen, dass man keine HBA Karte aus China kaufen muss. Gibt auch weitverbreitet in Deutschland den Adaptec ASR-71605 für 80€ oder weniger. Das sind 16 Ports, PCIe 3.0. Den kann man im BIOS einfach auf HBA Mode stellen. Allerdings Achtung: Mein MSI B650 Board startet damit nicht. Es bleibt beim booten hängen - davor geht alles. Hab dazu einen Thread gefunden und scheint in MSI Problem zu sein. Wer also generell HBA Karten in Erwägung zieht, finger weg von MSI (und potentiell AMD). Ich werde nochmal berichten, wie es aussieht wenn ich den in einem B760 verbaut habe. Edit: Asrock B760 Pro RS funktioniert wunderbar. Scheint ein Problem von MSI zu sein - Finger weg von MSI mit Raid Controller/HBA.

Sorry for kind of hijacking this topic. I'm looking at the 9300-16i for my drives, but it would be running in a PCIE 3.0 x4 slot. As far as I can tell, spinning drives shouldn't use up the bandwidth fully, so I should be good (will only use 12 drives anyway). But I'm a bit concerned after reading that it's 2x 9300-8i. Will having it in an x4 slot (physically x16) cause issues with that?

Hey guys, so I'm in a bit of a pickle. So far, I've been using a Star Tech USB enclosure with 2 drives and an ITX board inside a fairly small case. I decided to switch to the CS381 (12 hot swappable drives), but I'll need 1 nvme slot and 2 additional SATA ports for 2 internal HDDs that I use as a backup for my really important data (like the Unraid Apps, VMs, etc). The 12 drives will contain movies, games (NAS for steam), etc. I haven't bought a motherboard bought, but I'm limited to DDR5 (already got a kit for free) and mATX. I was looking at Intel for the 13100 - I already have an Arc A380 that will occupy the x16 top slot. I have not bought a board yet, as I'm trying to max out the drives and not spend hundreds for no reason. After reading through most of this thread, I think I have figured out what my options are. Please correct me, if I'm wrong. a board with x16 slot and x16 slot running at x4 3.0, then get a 16 lane PCIE 3 SAS card in IT mode (16 ports will have bandwidth limits) get a board with x16 slot and 2x (reachable!) PCIe 3.0 x1 slots, fill both of those with ASM1166 cards (12 ports total, no bandwidth limit?) get a board with 3 m.2 slots and occupy 2, using m.2 to 5 SATA ASMedia adapters (14 ports total, no bandwidth limit) The internal ports would be used for my backup drives. Those drives would be mounted internally and not be part of my 12 hot swap drives. Am I understanding this correctly? Will the x16 SAS card even work in an x16 slot, if it's only operating at x4 speed? I don't know if all lanes need to be connected electrically. The only controller I can find is the 9300-16i (not 9305-16i), so I'm not sure it would even work. They already come flashed in IT mode and cost around 200€. Not exactly looking forward to it, but I think it might be a better choice than mixing different ASM1166 cards.

My system starts just fine with the kernel. However, even when assigning a static IP, my unraid server just won't come up on the network. Can't ping anything and emhttpd is throwing connection timeout errors, so WebUI is not up either, obviously. Tried setting it to static via the GUI before changing out the kernel. No success either. It always ends up being: RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported In the end, I get that static IP but I can't actually communicate with any machines in the network. Not sure if it matters that I'm on an I219 ethernet controller. Did you have to do anything else to get this running?' Edit: IPs were only assigned to br0 for some reason. Manually assigning the IP to eth0 via ifconfig did the trick. I recommend adding this as the first line to your /boot/config/go file. ifconfig eth0 <ip-address> Transcoding works wonderfully, Jellyfin 10.8.9 stable: