April 11, 20251 yr Im building my media library and have run into a situation and im not sure how best to approach it. Right now I have 5x 8tb drives, and im copying all my blurays from physical disks. After some of them are copied I'm trying to set up a fileflow script to extract .hevc data, convert dolby vision 7.x to 8.1 (for stream compatibility), then stitch it back together with the main track. My issues comes in at disk space. Some of these files are 100GB+ so i really don't want to move them off of the array to process then back to array. I'd like to process in place on the source disk. I have set minimum free space to 80GB, but I think I will increase that to 105GB. I also have fill-up as distribution, and I'm not sure if that is overwriting my min free? Regardless mover keeps dumping files on to these disks and leaving me with <30GB, which means my scripts silently fail due to lack of space. I've done some digging and it seems there's no way to reserve disk space, and mover can only tell file size after a transfer finishes. Ive looked into mover tuning, but it looks like the "destination disk min free space" setting was removed in the past (if it ever existed, ai was my source for that info). Is there any way to approach this? I'd just like mover to fill disks, but leave 105GB so I can dump a temp file during fileflow script. I have a free 250GB sata ssd I can use as a last resort, but thats going to lengthen my script runs by 30min+ and I will likely have 100+ files to process Thanks for any advice. Edited April 11, 20251 yr by dcchillin46
April 11, 20251 yr Community Expert Note that split-level overrides allocation method, so make sure that split level for that share is not interfering.
April 11, 20251 yr Community Expert If you want the free space AFTER mover has moved a file to be 100GB then you need to set the Minimum Free Space to be that + the size of the largest file you expect to be moved. Sounds like you are talking about it being something like 200GB.
April 13, 20251 yr Author On 4/11/2025 at 1:32 PM, JorgeB said: Note that split-level overrides allocation method, so make sure that split level for that share is not interfering. How would I set it so it didn't interfere? Don't I have to select a split levele for the share?
April 13, 20251 yr Community Expert 57 minutes ago, dcchillin46 said: How would I set it so it didn't interfere? Don't I have to select a split levele for the share? What is the share's current split level?
April 14, 20251 yr Community Expert 15 hours ago, dcchillin46 said: Don't I have to select a split levele for the share? Split all will never interfere.
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