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RAID5 splits the data over the array. A single file can belong on many drives. That’s not the case with Unraid. Unraid stores a single file On a single drive. Your array can suffer the loss of however many parity drives you have. Scenario: you have a total of 5 drives with the parity drive equal to or larger in size than the largest drive. Eg: Parity >= 3TB Drive1 = 3TB Drive2 = 3TB Drive3 = 3TB Drive4 = 3TB If one drive dies and you slot in another, you’ll recover your data. If you have 2 parity drives: Parity1 >= 3TB Parity2 >= 3TB Drive1 = 3TB Drive2 = 3TB Drive3 = 3TB You can lose two drives. Parity in a nutshell is a mathematical computation of the data stored across the array. It uses just binary but to make it easier to understand: If you have an equation: 1 + 1 + 1 + x = 3 What will x be equal to? I’m over simplifying it but you get the picture. Just Imagine those as your drives. FreeNAS can grow the array size but it’s recommended that you do all the drives which is expensive. So if you had the scenario above you’d unplug the first drive, then insert a new larger one and let the array resilver / rebuild. Then unplug the next drive, plug in a larger one and let the array resilver. Rinse and repeat. In contrast Unraid doesn’t really care that you have mixed drive sizes, as long as your parity is your largest drive you’ll be golden. A lot of this is covered in the article I published above

Ah so it’s like traditional RAID in that sense. You learn something new every day ta!

Unraid stores a single file. However there’s enough data on the parity drive alone to recover that file if it got destroyed as part of a drive failure. I’m not familiar with ignoring files but there’s some things to note: 1) you could insert a drive and not add it to the array. Then store all your not so useful files here. I believe you can do this as part of the unassigned devices plugin. 2) the cache is also a drive that you can choose to have unprotected files on. When you create a share you choose weather you want unRAID to write to the cache first then move it to the protected array later. Or skip the cache altogether, or only use the cache. There’s way more experienced people that patrol this forum who will have better insight than me

Did a little write up w while back hope it helps: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/unraid-ultimate-home-nas/

Also thanks for this! Was getting permission denied in the User Scripts plugin and this change allowed the script to run

Seems like the permissions for the /root/.ssh folder now require 755 as opposed to 700 So to resolve this, wherever your script is running: chmod 755 /root/.ssh All working now

Thanks @johnnie.black, I think the script is a red herring here so lets leave it to one side. I manually add my public key to the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys I should be able to SSH in using Public Key Auth but it fails. Can't undestand it :/

ta! that might fix the automation piece - but still spinning as to why after manually putting the file in the correct location it's still failing

Not sure why this is failing. I currently have my authorized_keys file stored at /boot/config/ssh/authorized keys My go file has a line which runs a script #persist the Authorized Keys /boot/config/ssh/setup_ssh_client.sh The setup_ssh_client.sh script does: #!/bin/bash mkdir /root/.ssh chmod 700 /root/.ssh cp /boot/config/ssh/authorized_keys /root/.ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys But even after manually putting the file in that location and then restarting the SSH Daemon, still getting public key error. o_O Am i just having one of those days and it's blatantly obvious? tried generating a new key pair but that didn't work

Is it just me getting this error for that thread? The public only see the accomplished trick; They have no conception of the torturous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer that fear. - J.C Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini

The reason some boards won’t work is because their implementation of IPMI sends all video through the IPMI controller. This is done so that you can “Remote Desktop” into your machine using IPMI. As a result your Intel chip isn’t recognised as being the display adapter, rather it’s the IPMI controller. I can understand why it’s done this way but it can make for a bit of hassle in occasions such as this. @ramblinreck47 mentioned it might work though. Only other option would be to install a graphics card, but then you lose quick sync altogether. HW transcoding is possible with some Nvidia cards if you’re going that route. Give it a shot though it might work! The public only see the accomplished trick; They have no conception of the torturous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer that fear. - J.C Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini

Done Thanks!

Apologies, for some reason all the carriage returns were removed from my code blocks. All sorted now Thanks for the heads up

I’m not sure if that’s messing with things. Have you got a spare usb lying around to install a test unRAID with?

Ah okay - Are you back on stock unRAID now? btw just saw Slaapkamer XD is jy afrikaans?

Sorry, what do you mean by when you use your GPU it says transcode HW? Are you passing your GPU to the container? are you booting unRAID in non GUI? Have you got any other containers that could be using your iGPU? Also is iGPU enabled in the bios?

It is indeed The public only see the accomplished trick; They have no conception of the torturous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer that fear. - J.C Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini

All looks good in the terminal. How have you established it's not working? If you change the playback settings to a non native one and check the Now playing section - What does it show? Share the screen shot if possible.

Thanks buddy. Updated the post with your link. Hope your Hackintosh works okay Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Welcome to the Horde! Now show your dedication by branding yourself. Either get an Unraid tattoo or pickup some Unraid merch. https://www.zazzle.co.uk/store/unraid P.S Unraid are donating the proceeds to save the ocean

Have you checked out this link: https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/How-to/How-to-set-up-port-forwarding/ba-p/2662260 Which part of the port forwarding are you struggling with? ie. Finding the menu item? Understanding which ports to put where? Have you got a screenshot of the screen you're stuck on?

Problem was with the dummy HDMI Dongle that was connected to the VM. I connected the VM directly to a monitor. Booted it and it worked fine. Replugged the Dummy HDMI dongle into the VM. All was fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks guys! Found the culprit thanks to @Squid suggestion to turn on mover logs. Created a VDISK of 500GB for one of my VMs to use. It's sitting on the domains share which is set to Prefer. So every night it was trying to move this large vdisk to a 240GB Cache and failing. Think I'm going to have to move its location off domains.

So it looks like it's the Mover as it's shceduled for that time: But why is it filling up the drive ?

I've got a weird that happens every night. Cache seems to get close to the edge and then back to normal in a matter of a few mins. Normally she looks like this: To what stupidity am I subjecting myself? limnas-diagnostics-20190326-1900.zip