I just discovered how important getting the split level correct. Now that I have that correct, is there a way to merge 2 folders back to just 1 disk? I used Ember Media Manager to download fanart, nfo, etc and now some of the info is on another disk then the movie resulting in 2 folders with the same name. Does anyone have an easy way to merge the 2 folders together so that I only have 1 folder for each movie?

 

 

Disk1 > Movies > 8mm (1999) > 8MM.avi

 

Disk2 > Movies > 8mm (1999) > 8MM.nfo

Disk2 > Movies > 8mm (1999) > 8MM-fanart.jpg

mv "/mnt/disk2/Movies/8mm (1999)/*" "/mnt/disk1/Movies/8mm (1999)/"

 

or if there's more than 1 directory

 

mv "/mnt/disk2/Movies/*" "/mnt/disk1/Movies/"

 

 

Here's a slowish but easy way:

 

Make a temporary share/folder called Temp Movies or whatever you like.  Move (cut/paste) the movie and associated art into this temporary location (I would use Teracopy to do this move and later test it, but I'm kind of paranoid about data corruption).  Now just copy the movie and art back into the original location (Movies).  unRAID will write it to the share depending on the settings you have specified (split level, disk allocation method, etc).  When you are done with all of that, delete the temporary share/folder.

Thanks for the fast response. Just to be clear. Split Level 1 means that only the folder under Movies can be split to other hard drives. But everything under that folder will stay on the same drive. Right?

No, split level 1 means only Movies can split. Split level 2 means Movies can be created on every disk and the directories directly under Movies can be created on every disk.

 

Peter

thanks.

 

**edit**

 

I ended up just using mc to copy the directories together. Tonight I will go back and delete everything on the 1st drive. The mv command would not work when trying to copy directories over.