Good morning,

I recently swapped out the two 20TB parity drives I was using for 24TB's, and added the 20TB's to the data pool. During the startup of the array, I formatted the drives.

I was just going to manually move some files to those drives, but can't (ex, options to create a folder are greyed out). I checked and the Owner and permissions are different than the rest of the data drives.

Am I safe in just manually going in and changing the owner and permissions, or do I need to fix this in another way?

Thanks!

(diags & screenshot attached)

nasbox-u1-diagnostics-20250819-1115.zip

That's weird, Unraid should have set the correct permissions after formatting them, run the new permission tool on both disks.

I missed that tool in the list somehow!

New Permission Tool ran successfully and updated the owner/permissions.

One last thing - I must be missing something... I can't seem to figure out how to create a new folder on these drives. I thought I did this before by just clicking on the Create button in File Manager and then typing a folder name?

If you are writing to an existing share, the folders will be created on those disks automatically when needed, according to the allocation method set.

If it's a new one, go to Shares and create it, but it will be created in the first available disk initially unless you limit it to specific disk(s)

Gotcha! Thanks! That makes sense with the way shares are handled. Once the top level share is created on a drive, then I can create a sub-folder.

(sorry for the reply, was out of town.)