So I'm replacing a number of smaller drives with a couple new juicy 4 TB drives in my array. Looking up in the unRaid wiki, I found the procedure for moving files from one disk to another.

 

I used Putty to login to the server and entered the command (note the forgotten & in that command)

 

nohup mv /mnt/disk1/ /mnt/disk4/

 

There was a message about nohup being directed to nohup.out and nothing else seemed to happen. I entered the command a couple more times because I noticed the missing & but the same message poped up and nothing else. The system log didn't show any transfer activity.

 

I used windows explorer to navigate to the disk I'm moving data from and noticed that the files aren't there anymore. However, they aren't on the disk I moved them to either. Stopping and restarting the array didn't change anything.

 

The files are still available if I go to the shares folders in windows explorer. Similarly, if I use the webui and click on the drive itself, I can access and download the files that should have been moved. I can also see that missing files are still accounted for in the data that the webui says is contained on that disk (same amount of GB are in use)

 

How can I fix this?

Please post the diagnostics. 

Thanks, here it is:

tower-diagnostics-20221213-1047.zip

Cache device appears to be failing, you can try rebooting but if there are more errors best to disconnect or replace it.

I removed the cache drive and replaced with an SSD I had lying around, maybe that's why

 

Will removing the cache drive fix the issue with the files on the disks?

It could, since there were filesystem issues with the cache device, and since it's included in the user shares file system issues on one device can cause issues for all user shares.

Thanks JorgeB!

 

So i'm about to stop the array to remove the cache. Is there any risk I lose the data that's in limbo?

Edited December 14, 20223 yr by guigz

Should be fine if you do a clean shutdown.

So I removed the cache drive from the array. The files are still missing in the shares but are present in the Disk on the webui. Any suggestions as to what I can do next?

tower-diagnostics-20221214-1054.zip

I'm not seeing any issues with the user shares, can you post a screenshot showing an example of the problem?.

Below are the screenshots

 

The problem is that the missing files aren't visible in windows explorer but are "visible" through the webui. They are accessible via the Shares but not the disks. I want to transfer all the data from disk 4 to another because I'll be shrinking the array.

post the output of:

ls -la /mnt/user

 

OK, I think I see the problem, you have a disk4 share, that means there's a folder called disk4 as a top level share in one of your disks, you can find find out where by going to Shares -> Disk4 (in user shares, not disk shares) -> Compute

you're right! If I don't want to lose the files in that disk 4 share, can I copy them somewhere else and then remove the user share?

You can.

Ok, so I tried to delete the files in the Disk 4 share but windows explorer won't let me. Using telnet, I was able to delete the files with the rm -r command in the share. They were gone from the disk (checked with ls command) but unraid said the share wasn't empty. Now the files are back again. Any suggestions?

tower-diagnostics-20221216-0800.zip

Nothings obvious, delete the share using the disk path then reboot.

Ok, did this with midnight commander and now when I try to stop the array, I get:

 

Spinning up all drives...Stopping services...Sync filesystems...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)...Retry unmounting user share(s)

 

 

Still doing it 5 minutes later...

Edited December 16, 20223 yr by guigz
still doing it

Close the terminal window

Ahah, thanks! Now I'run into another problem, when I go to the share page to delete the share, it does this when I press apply to delete:

 

Nevermind, I simply renamed the share before deleting it and that seems to have worked

 

Ok, this is insane.

 

I renamed the share disk4 to another name, deleted that share, rebooted, confirmed that neither disk4 nor the other named share was there. Then I tried to movev the files again using putty and the command "mv /mnt/disk4/ /mnt/disk1/" and it created a user share called disk4 again!!! What the heck??

Are you sure you didn't forget the trailing slash?

 

 

That's the command I entered, is there anything missing?