February 25, 20251 yr Community Expert 7 hours ago, nettech_gt said: Or is there no need for the secondary storage to be set for the Array? You need secondary storage set for mover to be able to transfer files from the array to the 'cache' pool, but once that has happened and all the files are on the pool you can change the secondary storage to None. This will remove the ability for this share to overflow to the array, but since it is normally static in size this is very unlikely to matter. This will have the benefit that the share can now use Unraid's Exclusive Share feature which can improve SMB performance for that share.
February 28, 20251 yr Author On 2/25/2025 at 3:38 AM, itimpi said: You need secondary storage set for mover to be able to transfer files from the array to the 'cache' pool, but once that has happened and all the files are on the pool you can change the secondary storage to None. This will remove the ability for this share to overflow to the array, but since it is normally static in size this is very unlikely to matter. This will have the benefit that the share can now use Unraid's Exclusive Share feature which can improve SMB performance for that share. Thank you for explaining this. It make more sense now.
February 28, 20251 yr Author On 2/24/2025 at 10:08 AM, trurl said: system share still has files on the array. Nothing can move open files so you have to disable Docker and VM Manager in Settings before that share can be worked on. As I mentioned my router is pfSense which runs as a VM. Once I disable the VM manager I loose GUI access to UNRAID without doing a hard reboot. After the reboot the server gets a 169.x.x.x address and I can get to the GUI. Is there a way to "refresh" the IP of the server after my pfSense VM has gone down with out needing to reboot the server? Thanks!
February 28, 20251 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, nettech_gt said: I loose GUI access to UNRAID Attached monitor and keyboard?
February 28, 20251 yr Author To clarify, when I say GUI I mean accessing UNRAID via a web browser. Yes, I have a screen and keyboard connected but I can't seem to get to a bash prompt. What is displayed on the screen is all the boot commands that have run to load the system. If I hard reboot the server I'll see all the boot up commands running and eventually I'll see a bash prompt and the IP address.
March 1, 20251 yr Author At the moment my server is doing a parity check, so I can't test it right now. However I found this: Should I select "UNRAID OS GUI mode" on the right (blue dot) and then would I need to add anything else to get my cache pool to boot? I didn't know this was an option. I would prefer to boot to GUI mode by default rather then console. Thanks.
March 10, 20251 yr Author On 2/24/2025 at 10:32 AM, trurl said: Run mover, wait for it to complete. Mover won't overwrite files so if there are duplicates you will have to clean that up yourself. You can see how much of each disk or pool is used by a user share by clicking Compute... for the share on the User Shares page. If you had Dynamix File Manager plugin installed (or on Unraid V7 where it is included) you can work with your folders and files directly on the server. Ok, I finally got everything moved from system off the array. Dynamix File Manger was very helpful. Thanks! unraid-diagnostics-20250309-2007.zip
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