Hi there

I'm defeated. I've spent several hours trying to copy files from a share to an external usb disk. No matter what I try I run into obstacles. The external disk does not appear in the list of destination shares when clicking "copy". Or using "upload" when the disk is selected does not accept folders, only files.

How do I make it available to copy something to?

Thanks!

You are connecting the disk to your unraid server? If so do you have the unassigned devices plus plugin?

You would need to mount it to use it within unraid.

Yes. The disk is mounted via said plugin. It's just not available as a destination for a file copy.

I navigate to the folder I want to copy to the stick using Unraid file management. I mark it. I click "copy" either at the bottom of the list or at the plus sign next to the folder. I look for the usb disk as a destination for the copy command. It's not there. My regular shares are there.

Try using Midnight Commander (mc on the console), unassigned disk will be under /mnt/disks

Thanks. There are no "disks" share. Maybe because I only have user shares. I wasn't expecting reconfiguration to copy files to usb.

54 minutes ago, helgrimm said:

There are no "disks" share.

It's not a share (/mnt/user/disks), it's a mount point (/mnt/disks), if the USB device is mounted with UD it must exist.

You're right. It does. I couldn't find it last night :( Thanks.

I solved the task before your comments by copying the relevant folders and files to a local machine performing the copy process locally.

On a side note to $limetech. I have a couple of Beelink Mini Me's running Unraid on starter licenses. They are non-expandable mini PCs with 6 nvme slots so a starter license is perfect. Inserting a usb thumb drive to extract a few files for transport is not possible because "too many disks". I find it very hard to sympathize with this policy.

41 minutes ago, helgrimm said:

Inserting a usb thumb drive to extract a few files for transport is not possible because "too many disks".

Start the array first, you can then insert a USB device and mount it with the UD until you stop the array.

19 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Start the array first, you can then insert a USB device and mount it with the UD until you stop the array.

With the array started and after inserting the drive UD had no mount option, but rather a REBOOT option. After the reboot came the "too may disks".

That would be a UD issue; it should detect and allow mounting the device. It does for me, and if you reboot with it connected, it will hit the license limit.

2 hours ago, helgrimm said:

With the array started and after inserting the drive UD had no mount option, but rather a REBOOT option. After the reboot came the "too may disks".

Strange. I do not even remember UD having a REBOOT option.

Perhaps he meant this?

Edited October 25, 2025Oct 25 by ConnerVT

17 hours ago, itimpi said:

Strange. I do not even remember UD having a REBOOT option.

It's not an option. It's a message or a state: I won't work until you reboot.

10 hours ago, ConnerVT said:

Perhaps he meant this?

Thanks. I had already manually mounted the drive. When I found this setting I switched it on, but it wasn't the problem. The problem was basically that I found it overly complicated to copy a few files to external usb with the inbuilt file manager. I probably also overlooked the /mnt/disks/ mount point when using Midnight Commander as JorgeB pointed out.