Hi,

I was in the process of consolidating all my data from 5 disks into 1 disk. I used the unbalanced plugin to do this. After this completed, I noticed that under shares that disk 6 wasn't assignable and then I started googling... And found out that I should never move data from a user share to a disk share.

Currently I have my array stopped, to see what the best path moving forward is. Luckily a lot of my data is still on my cache drives which I haven't touched. However, a lot of raw data such as my NAS and nextcloud data storage was on disks in the user share. I did go into the disk share and click around on some photos, which seem to be loading file. But I'm unsure if things are corrupted or how to tell. Before I do anything further, I'm wondering if there is a good way to either undo what was done, or since I didn't move data from a disk array to a user array, if things aren't as bad as it seems.

Any help here would be appreciated. My last backup of the system was quite a while ago, so it sounds like some files might be permanently lost. Lesson learned.

I also was struggling to find a way to convert my disk share to a user share. The plan would be to unassign all the disks associated with the user share, create a new assignment with this disk share as disk1 and then rebuild parity. If this isn't a strategy that works, please let me know what would be best. Thanks!

Not sure that I follow, AFAIK the unbalance plugin doesn't move from disk shares to user shares, or did you use the CLI?

Hi Jorge,

I think I misunderstood exactly what unbalanced was doing, so I think things are actually ok at the moment. I included the HDD which was sitting in the disk share to the global user share. This seems to be working as expected when booting up the array. I do think there are some lingering permission issues with my nextcloud docker, but I will create a new thread if I can't figure that out.