Unraid: 6.12.10, setup to be able to complete atomic moves.

 

A couple of nights ago I went through the shrink array guide to remove multiple drives.

 

My array setup at the time was a total of 17 drives. #1-8 were 4TB, #9-11 were 18TB, #12-13 were 4TB, and #14-17 were 18TB. I also have 2 parity drives.

 

The goal was to remove all but 1 of the 4TB drives. Data from each of the to be removed drives were migrated over to a 18TB drive using unbalance, and I confirmed that there was no data left on the drives by browsing to the drive to see if there was anything left over.

 

After completing the steps in "New Config" tool, and moving over to the main tab of unraid, I removed the drives I didnt want and rearranged the drives I wanted to keep starting from Disk 1. Parity rebuild has completed.

 

PROBLEM: Navigating to /mnt/user/data/(Any folder) I see a tiny portion of directories that I would be expecting to see. Navigating to specific disks (/mnt/disk#/data/...) all the directories and all the files that I would expect to see are there. Permissions seem to be correct all the way down from /mnt/disk#/data to whichever directory I navigate to (drwxrwxrwx+  2 nobody users).

 

Fix Common Problems has a bunch of errors, but I am not sure what to do with them, as the shares appear to be showing correctly instead of what I changed when starting the shrink array guide steps. Although one thing that I do see is that when selecting the inclusion drop down list, there are no drives listed to select.

Screenshots of Fix Common Problems and each of the share settings are attached. Last screenshot is of the global share settings.

 

What is it that I have missed, making this process not complete properly?

tower-diagnostics-20240412-1441.zip

 

Edited April 13, 20242 yr by PsyCl0ne
Adjusted title and post for better explination.

Alright I got it sorted.

 

I dont have proof of exactly what the issue was but by doing the following I was able to get everything working.

 

1) As per Fix Common Problems, I went into each share, deleted the last number for "Minimum free space" put that number back and applied the change.

2) The drives that I am removing from my system since they are listed under "Unassigned Devices" I had to mount all of them and I deleted the only file that I could see which was "data" after once again checking that there were no files in them. To do this I used File Manager in the unraid GUI.

3) I unmounted the drives and stopped the array.

4) Navigating into Settings > Global Share Settings I was now able to see all the drives I am keeping listed in the drop-down menu for "Included disk(s)". I enabled them all and applied. Then I hit the Done button.

5) Started the array back up and I got one more notification from Fix Common Problems for the ISOS share. I repeated step 1 to correct that issue.

6) Confirmed that all the missing directories were now visible under /mnt/user/.

7) Stopped the array once again, went back into the Global Share Settings, deselected all the drives from the inclusion list so that it showed all. Applied the change and then hit the Done button.

8)) Started the array once more and going into every share settings I can finally see all of my array drives in the Inclusion and Exclusion drop-down menus.

9) Quick skim through my data directory, it appears to now have what I would normally have expected prior to this mess.