JackBauer

Thank you - but Active Streams doesn't seem to pick up on shares that are outside the array? I have a UD "share" that is actually an SMB share from another server. Just wanting to monitor that "stream" if possible. Any ideas? Not super-urgent... edit: Never mind - I used a plugin to monitor my Ethernet traffic - and that's a proxy for what I wanted...

Is there a way to view / monitor active connections? Sorry - hard to read through 86 pages to find this answer

In disk settings my default format is XFS. Formatting now, I assume it will end up being XFS Thanks for all the help!

Ok I think this is really my last question I don't quite see (and can't easily find by searching due to massive amount of information on the broad subject)... Exactly how to format the new 8TB (as XFS)... My parity is good now, new drive is not yet added. Array is stopped. I can add the drive, and start the array - but I want to make sure it will be XFS, and can't exactly tell when I will have the chance to set that. (And where) I've poked around, but am really not certain where the formatting command comes in and how to configure as XFS. Thanks

Now I'm debating stopping the parity build... As that parity disk is a shingled HD... And swapping in my WD red as the new parity, pushing the shingled to be the replacement data disk instead. Thoughts?

Parity is rebuilding now. Thanks much for the help!

Ok so when I go to Tools:New Config... There are four options under Retain Configuration. I'm guessing I check parity and data (I have no cache) Although I'm not sure as one of my data drives is missing, I'm not sure what the next step is after I click apply. I'm being extra careful here (of course). A quick search did not show me much information (at all) on the 'Retain Configuration" setting.

My 8TB is preclearing now, should wrap up tonight sometime I think. The 500GB is out of the array, all data was removed and files deleted. When you say "new config"... What do you mean exactly? My array is started, although as expected it is currently missing a disk. Parity is valid, although Unraid says my array is unprotected... (As it is missing a disk.. disk 5, not installed) Right now it WILL let me do a parity check and write corrections... Even though I am missing a disk. So that was what I was thinking I should do. Update parity, add then add the new 8TB drive. Thanks for the help...

So I'm about to add an 8TB drive to my system. (Parity is already 8TB) I had a 500GB drive I moved all the data to other drives. I then removed that drive so I could put in the 8TB to do the pre-clear. The parity was valid before I removed the drive. (Well I think it was, I actually checked the parity before I deleted everything and removed the drive). Before adding the 8TB to the array officially, I think I just need to update parity... Which should essentially remove the 500GB from the array. I can then format and add (as XFS) the new 8TB?

Yes I already set them to 100% - the problem is that my disks in general are at 100% capacity. Not to the byte, but rounded up. I guess we'll see the next time I restart the system if I get those 8 messages. Thanks...

Thank you - unfortunately the Dynamix thread is even longer... And Google isn't helping... I clearly want to receive warnings for serious issues, but not that my shares are full. One of the main benefits of unraid is long term storage, so I think a lot of people probably have disks bulging with data and add disks when they are full. Appreciate the hint in the right direction though - I'll change the settings to 100% but I fear I'll still get the warnings. (At the time I was doing something on my ipad, so the pointless messages coming up that I had a new email... one by one... Well it was a little distracting and was just hoping to prevent in the future) Thanks again !

I just updated my FCP plugin, and upon reboot I got 8 friendly emails telling me I'm low on disk space on drives. I don't recall seeing those messages previously... Any way to disable? I mean I have a server like unraid because I intend to fill each drive and then add more... I did a quick search and couldn't find the answer with google, and 40 pages is a bit long to read through. Any hints?

Thank you Johnnie. That did it. I'm all set now. Appreciate the help guys.

I suppose I could manually (even over the network from my main windows PC)... Edit the files manually... Create a syslinux directory, manually create the syslinux.cfg file within it... Delete the /config/plugins directory, etc.. I just don't get it, the plugin from github seemed to execute fine.

Thank you RobJ. I have no syslinux folder. I'm not angry, but frustrated b/c I was excited about taking the simple "plugin" approach to doing this, and now it's all messed up Incidentally I was able to get into v6 (but did not start the array) by typing: /bzimage initrd=/bzroot Based on the above, does that suggest an "easy" fix - or do I really have to start from scratch with the more complicated way of upgrading?