MrToad

My USB drive failed on my unraid server. Reading through your help documentation I need to contact you to get a new key, how do I do that? Do I need to make a new USB drive first and then swap out keys? I was using unraid as my media server with plex. I'm worried my array will be messed up, but I need to get unraid up and running first then worry about my other potential nightmare. 😞

I need help figuring out what I did wrong. My system 4 10 TB drives. 1 10 TB parity drive, 3 10TB data drives. I just added two 12 TB drives to my system and after my 64 hour pre-clear I tried to install them and I got the Disk in parity slot is not biggest. So I added one of my new 12 TB as parity 2 and my server started the parity copy procedure. Here is where I think I messed up. After the copy was finished I stopped my server and unassigned my 10TB parity drive. I then unassigned my 12 TB and tried to put it in Parity 1 slot but it wouldn't allow me to do that. I was able to restart my array with my new 12 TB parity 2 drive, but now I no longer have a parity 1 drive. I only have a parity 2 drive. Is this an issue? do I need to worry about this? Was there other steps I needed to take or did I hose myself? Full disclosure when I turned my array back on I also added a second 12 TB drive to my data disks when I restarted. I have not added any new content to my server but I have added in the new drive. My old 10TB parity drive is still in my server, it is just not assigned to anything and is waiting around for me to do something with it. So what do I need to do to fix my screw up?

THANK YOU!!!! I switched my Split level and fired off Mover and its working!! Thank you for explaining what my configuration settings were causing. I really appreciate the help!!!!! THANKS AGAIN!!

Sorry about uploading the wrong file. I set the Minimum Free space to 20TB and then stopped and restarted my array. Same issue, cache drive is full. under my share settings my Use cache disk is set to Yes. I have included my latest diagnostic file. I appreciate the help!! toadskingdom-diagnostics-20190821-0540.zip

I have a new Unraid set up. I have four 10 TB drives and one 1 TB Cache drive. One of my four 10 TB drives is my parity drive, the others are my storage. So I have 30TB of space plus my 1 TB cache drive. The issue that I am having is that my cache drive is full as is one of my 10TB drives. My other two drives have nothing written to them. For some reason unraid has only written to one of my three 10TB drives which is now full and is why I believe the cache drive is full, it has nowhere to write it’s content to. I have forced the write now option and nothing happens except a log file gets generated that says cache drive is full. In Global Share Settings my enable disk shares is set to Auto, included disks is set to All and excluded disk is set to none. Looking at my share settings Allocation method is set to High-water, minimum free space is set to 0KB and Split level is set to Auto split only the top level directory. Included disk is set to ALL and excluded disk is set to none. On my Main tab looking at my array devices is sees all of my hard drives and says Array of four devices. Looking at the total space of my array it lists 30TB On my Dashboard under Array it lists all four disks and has a green active status for all of them. I have stopped the array and restarted it. I have rebooted the machine. I have not run a Parity check because I don’t want my server to be down for 4 days like it was when I did my first parity check. The only installed plugins on my machine are community Apps, Dynamix SSD TRIM, Dynamix system buttons, Dynamix system Statistics, Fix common problems and Unassigned Devices. If I look at my Shares tab it has the names of my three folders that I am storing my content. Under location it says Cache, Disk 1. Could this be the issue? Where should I be looking to figure this out? Why would unraid see all of my drives show them healthy and active, but only write to one? Did I screw up my configuration? I am brand new to Unraid and so I expected a learning curve. I’m just not sure what to do next because I have checked everything I can think of with my limited experience. toadskingdom-syslog-20190821-0236.zip