I am having difficulty describing my question (apologies if sounds disjointed).  My file server is designed such that I have distinct buckets of root folders (that contain files and folders) that I would like to keep contained on specific drives only (and do not want portions of the files and folders to get spread across multiple drives.  I like knowing that a specific drive only contains folders and files for that specific root folder.   I assume this is what the [ included/excluded disks ] allow you to control.(?)   

 

The share names I defined are named the same as these root folders (so I can easily keep track) and I have gone through each share and defined the [ included/excluded disks ] for each.  Each share only "includes" the 1 specific drive I would like it to only save against and have "excluded" all other drives.  and have done that for each of the 8 disks I have included in my current raid setup.  So I feel this is the feature that allows me to control this.

 

My question is, .. I didn't have this explicitly defined this way for a while, and now I have folders and files that exist across multiple disks that I would ultimately like to clean up after I have since carefully defined the [ included/excluded disks ].  Is there an easy way to cause UNRAID to auto move folders/files (after the fact) so that they are now only physically located on the disks that I have carefully defined?

 

  

8 minutes ago, mediarif said:

Is there an easy way to cause UNRAID to auto move folders/files (after the fact) so that they are now only physically located on the disks that I have carefully defined?

Unfortunately not.    You have to manually move files to rectify this.

Okay, ... thank you for this confirmation.   My last question (related to this topic) is in perspective to appropriate process.   When I terminal into my UNRAID server.  I assume I navigate into the /mnt/ folder and then into each diskX folder to manually perform each action ...

 

if I use the linux mv command, will it properly (safely) combine/merge the folders/files together (as I mv each root folder (and sub-directories) into its proper drive) ... or is there a different linux command I should be using to do this? (sorry about my noob'ish linux command line question there) ... or is there a different process I should be using altogether?

 

 

 

Using the Linux ‘mv’ command should work fine as long as you make no mistakes in the command.

 

A better solution might be to use the Dynamix File Manager plugin as it will provide a GUI interface and also protect you against certain types of actions that might result in data loss.