Plex 'cache' share/disk? Or not?

[iTunes]

Hello all,

 

so, I have had my unraid server for years now and am still very happy with it. Now one thing that's been bugging me lately is this one 'mystery' share I had called 'Library'... it seems to house a Plex appdata/config, that actually is being updated (like has new logs, folders are edited every day, etc.), which I find very strange seen as my Plex config is mounted at '/mnt/plex/'....

 

When I open the share it says it is stored on the Array, yet when I go into the webGUI's 'explorer' it lists that it resides on the 'plex cache drive' (which is mounted like a cache drive, so not part of the array)... 

 

Could anyone help me debug?

Thank you in advance!

tower-diagnostics-20240814-1657.zip

[itimpi]

Are you sure you are looking in the ‘plex’ pool and not the ‘cache’ pool for a top level folder called Library?

[iTunes]

On 8/15/2024 at 2:16 PM, itimpi said:

Are you sure you are looking in the ‘plex’ pool and not the ‘cache’ pool for a top level folder called Library?

So my Plex config is at '/mnt/plex/'

but I also have a user share at /mnt/user/Library called Library which says it's location is plex' (the plex cache pool SSD) when looking through the unraid webgui...

 

So I am fairly sure it's on the plex pool... Could it be a symlink or something?

 

[itimpi]

25 minutes ago, iTunes said:

So my Plex config is at '/mnt/plex/'

but I also have a user share at /mnt/user/Library called Library which says it's location is plex' (the plex cache pool SSD) when looking through the unraid webgui...

 

So I am fairly sure it's on the plex pool... Could it be a symlink or something?

 

You can always try the command 

ls -l /mnt/plex

to check what folders (shares) are on the 'plex' pool.  

[iTunes]

10 hours ago, itimpi said:

You can always try the command 

ls -l /mnt/plex

to check what folders (shares) are on the 'plex' pool.  

This returns this: 

drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 38 May 10 17:19 Library/

Would it just be a visual bug and would the Library share actually reside on the plex disk? If so, would it be safe to just switch the 'Primary storage' to plex instead of 'cache' like it says right now? (ls -l /mnt/cache doesn't return Library..)

[itimpi]

No it is a genuine error.

 

The share is configured to use the ‘cache’ pool, but has files on the ‘plex’ pool.     Unraid never automatically moves files that are on a different pool to what you have configured for the share.    You have to move such files manually to correct the situation.

[iTunes]

8 hours ago, itimpi said:

No it is a genuine error.

 

The share is configured to use the ‘cache’ pool, but has files on the ‘plex’ pool.     Unraid never automatically moves files that are on a different pool to what you have configured for the share.    You have to move such files manually to correct the situation.

So, just to be sure... I manually move the files from the cache/Library share to the plex share and 'correct' the settings afterwards?

[itimpi]

34 minutes ago, iTunes said:

So, just to be sure... I manually move the files from the cache/Library share to the plex share and 'correct' the settings afterwards?

Not quite as you do not seem to have any of the Library share on the ‘cache’ pool.    
 

You either correct the settings for the Library share to say that its primary is the ‘plex’ pool leaving the files where they are, or alternatively leave the settings as they are and move the Library folder (and its contents) from the ‘Plex’ pool to the array to match the settings.