Moving files between shares in same pool - stupid question (I guess)

[Nicodem]

Looks like I made a huge mistake. Just copied files from one unraid server to another (more then 30h of copying) and now seems like I been stupid like hell.

To have a better control over things that I am copying, I simply created a new share and copied all files into it.

Now I wanted to distribute these among the target shares properly and what I see is not a real "move" command for me. Its not just linking files to new locations but actually copies it. So I am doing full copy for the second time like stupid.

Is there a way to avoid it? What is a cause of such behavior? Cant files be left at the actual physical drive where they are and just re-linked?

 

 

[JonathanM]

If you have a clear understanding of disk vs. user shares, you could temporarily enable disk shares and operate directly on the disks. Just don't use any /mnt/user paths while you are dealing directly on the disks.