Hello good people!  I'd appreciate a quick confirmation that I'm doing this right before I spend too much time doing it wrong.

 

I have created a new Unraid array.  I've created a share on it. I wish to move data from old disks to the array without involving the network.  To that end, I've installed the Unassigned Disks plugin, mounted the old disks, and started MC in the terminal.

 

The share does appear as /mnt/Disk1/ShareName

 

And this is where I must pause.  Repeatedly I see comments to the effect of "disk to disk copy" is OK, but "disk to share copy will certainly bring doom upon us all".  (I'm paraphrasing.)

 

I want feel /mnt/Disks/UD to /mnt/Disk1/ShareName qualifies as disk to disk.  And it does seem to do what I want!  But the presence of ShareName in the path is offering up just enough ambiguity to keep me from forging ahead.

 

So that's the question.

 

Is: 

 

cp /mnt/Disks/UD /mnt/Disk1/ShareName ---> OK ?

 

Thanks so much!

Linux is case-sensitive. You have used upper case several times where it is not appropriate. 

 

/mnt/disk1/sharename is the part of sharename that is on disk1 in the array. 

 

/mnt/disks/mountname is the path to the Unassigned disk mounted at mountname. 

 

I would use Dynamix File Manager to do the copy. You also mention MC which is another way. Or you could do the cp command but you don't have it quite right.

Ah, yes, I have played fast and loose with case sensitivity.  However, that's very much a secondary concern for me.

 

My question is if 

 

/mnt/disks/mountname  to  /mnt/disk1/sharename

 

counts as "disk to disk" for the purposes of avoiding the admonition of "do not do disk to share".

 

Tks!

1 hour ago, Ommina said:

avoiding the admonition of "do not do disk to share".

This is referring to avoid doing a disk path to a /mnt/user/sharename type path.