I have a share set up for TV that is supposed to span 2 hdds. I choose to use the fill-up method however I have exactly 0 bytes left on the drive (thought I set the limit to 5GB free min) and nothing is showing up on the other drive. Everything still waiting to transfer is sitting on my cache drive.

 

 

What didn't I set up right?

 

Spaces are fine. Try to run the mover manually and then post a syslog.

Change to high-water or most-free and see if it starts to work.

 

You could have the split level wrong or the min free space wrong. No-one can tell when you don't give any details concerning what you store in the user share and the directory structure you use to store it.

 

Peter

Finally have some time to get this sorted out. Thanks for the suggestions thus far.

 

Share: Television, supposed to span disk4 & disk5.

Structure: Television > Series (Airing) > Show Title > Season > Show S01E01

 

I played with split level a bit. Obviously with the structure above I should have had at least a split level of 2, if not 3. I've tried both and the problem seems to persist.

 

As for min free space, as you can see I have 5,000,000 set which should be ~5GB mark and any TV files are certainly smaller than that.

 

So disk4 is still sitting at 0k free. I keep manually moving stuff to disk5 and the mover keep trying to smush more content onto disk4. I'll try switching to most-free and see if that helps as suggested but first I'll try to grab a syslog as suggested.

 

Edit:

- I manually copied over 50GB of content from disk4 to disk5 to get some breathing room

- then restarted the server - clear syslog

- kept the allocation method to "Fill-up" for now, but set min. free space to 50,000,000 figuring it should hit that soon

- started the mover script to move current stuff off the cache drive

 

Results:

It still dipped below the new 50,000,000 min free space. After re-reading the unraid manual, I think I understand why. Even with the split level set to 3, in my case, that's telling the server to put any TV episode on disk4 if it belongs to a season that's already been started on disk4.

 

Ultimately, this is what I want; I wouldn't want part of a season on one disk and the other part on another to prevent spin-up during watching in sequence... but at the same time it seems that I'll continue to run into this issue until a new season is started on disk5. Am I understanding this correctly?

 

How do other people avoid this?

What version of unRaid are you using. I was having the same issue and Prostuff had said there was an issue with Beta10's mover not moving. 

I avoid that problem by not using fill-up. High-water or most-free will both be much more likely to spread stuff between disks.

 

Peter

I'm still on 4.6. As for the other methods, sure they'll spread better, but that wasn't really my goal. I think I'm after something like 'all old shows I don't really watch on one disk and all current stuff on the other' to avoid the dreaded disk spin up time while consuming the same type of media (tv). Guess the only way yo really achieve that one that one disk is full is to create two separate shares or manually move current shows/ seasons to the second disk and use most free.