One disk & parity spinning up randomly

[robti]

Hi I have a new set up with 4 x 4Tb disks one being parity, one has just files on it and the other two for media, although only one disk has anything on it. I have a cache ssd set up and two apps installed plex and home assistant. Now I have noticed if I log in to the ui at random times that I see the parity and disk one have spun up with the others still down, I have power down set to 15 minutes and anything scheduled to run on Sunday. If I go into disk logs all I see are disk spinning down then up for smart, but I could be mixed up, can anyone see anything in the logs or tell me that this is normal ?

Thanks

 

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Edited September 19, 2022 by robti
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[JorgeB]

System share has files on disk1, move them to cache, services must be disabled first.

[robti]

thank you i have checked and i have cache set up for prefer, so this must have happened when i did a backup install when i was learning and first set it up. can you help on how to stop services and then move the files please?

Thanks

[JorgeB]

Click on settings, then docker and VM Manager settings and disable both, then run the mover, bellow stop array button.

[robti]

Thanks, i must be listening and taking some things in as this is what i tried after my last post, so my docker moved of disk onto cache but i am left with libvirt.img file @ 1.07Gb  don't know why i have this. Can i delete or move this folder to cache ?

Thanks

Edited September 19, 2022 by robti

[JorgeB]

8 minutes ago, robti said:

but i am left with libvirt.img file @ 1.07Gb  don't know why i have this

It's for the VMs, either the service was left enabled or another one already exists on cache.

[robti]

i have an empty folder on cache

[itimpi]

14 minutes ago, robti said:

i have an empty folder on cache

That suggests you forgot to disable the VM service before running mover.   Mover will not move open files, and the libvirt.img file would be kept open by the VM service if it is running.

[robti]

Ended up using mc to move the file over as it wouldn’t move using mover, all seems to be working fine atm.

thanks to all for the help really appreciate it

[robti]

4 hours ago, itimpi said:

That suggests you forgot to disable the VM service before running mover.   Mover will not move open files, and the libvirt.img file would be kept open by the VM service if it is running.

Sorry stopped the docker and vm (although nothing in that ) and tried mover a few times but it wouldn’t move, also tried it after a reboot with the same result, I just wondered if it was something I had done when playing around before I did a new setup with my back up files added to the usb