If I use Midnight Commander to move/copy files from User Share to User Share (/mnt/user/Bob <-> /mnt/user/Sally), does unRAID still "balance" across all associated disks where the relevant User Share resides? In the same manner as the files would have been treated over the network?

If you are writing from share to share it should. However if you where writing disk3 to disk4 it wouldn't.

If you are writing from share to share it should. However if you where writing disk3 to disk4 it wouldn't.

 

Cool. I presume the same assumption would apply to AjaxExplorer?

Anything writing to /mnt/user/* will be allocated by unRAID settings. Writing to /mnt/disk*/* will not.

The files will stay on the same disk if you do a move and both shares are set to use the disk the files were originally on. In this case, unRAID will not respect the share settings. You will even find files that did not respect the split level. You can do a copy and then delete the original files or you can do a disk to disk copy. I believe this is caused by Samba or something in the Linux file subsystem.

 

Peter

 

 

Another noob question...how do you tag directories and/or files to copy from one place to another? I couldn't find it in the help files, so I have been copying directories/files one at a time so far...a real PITA.

Control-T tags a file/directory

Control-T tags a file/directory

Thanks! I knew there had to be a way.

Anything writing to /mnt/user/* will be allocated by unRAID settings. Writing to /mnt/disk*/* will not.

 

The files will stay on the same disk if you do a move and both shares are set to use the disk the files were originally on. In this case, unRAID will not respect the share settings. You will even find files that did not respect the split level. You can do a copy and then delete the original files or you can do a disk to disk copy. I believe this is caused by Samba or something in the Linux file subsystem.

 

Peter

 

Thanks!

Control-T tags a file/directory

 

Cool to know. I've been using alt+, which allows strings to be entered, with wild cards, so for example B* will select any file/folder beginning with 'B'.