[SOLVED] 4 Disks added - Need to modify shares?

[damelon]

So I originally had an array with 4 3TB disks (1 parity and 3 data).    I added 4 additional data disks, which were half the size of the original disks (1.5TB).     I hit the first high water mark on the first 3 disks, which just so happens to be the size of the 4 new disks, so now all the data disks have the same "free" space.

 

Do I need to modify the shares to use the new disks?  Do I need to restart the array after I do it?  

 

I noticed that after adding the new disks, if I map the share to a network drive, it shows the same total space as it had before I added the new disks.   The unRaid menu shows all disks in the array and the correct total space and free size of the array.   (Though the new disks aren't spun up since they hold no data yet) So it appears unraid knows about the disks, but the shares don't show that new free space on other computers.

 

Thoughts?

[lionelhutz]

You may need to modify the share settings. How would we know when you didn't provide any details of the existing settings???

 

The free space will likely show up after an array stop-start or a reboot.

[damelon]

Sorry about that.   There were 3 existing shares "Movies, Music, and TV".    There were really no advanced settings on any of them.   High Water, Split Level 1.   I didnt type any included or excluded disks and just used the default of "Blank".   That was it.    

 

Using beta5 build 13.

 

UPDATE:   Found a "Solved" thread where someone says after taking the array offline and restarting the space showed up.  Going to try that.

 

UPDATE2:  That worked!  Taking the array offline, restarting, and bringing it back up showed the correct free space across my windows shares.