Hello,

Last year I set up an Unraid server with quite a few shares. Those are named like 01_xx, 02_yy, 03_zz what has worked for me for decades on different servers. Now I tried to rename one of these shares from 03_zz to 03_aa and I get an error that the name is invalid and has to start with a letter!

The same if I try to create a new share starting with a number.

Why??? And how can I override this?

Btw: I am on Unraid 7.2.4 and that was not the case on earlier versions when I set up Unraid .

Thx

I believe this is a restriction introduced because of ZFS so only applies to the latest Unraid releases. The help built into the GUI tells you what is currently allowed.

There is a workaround that is to manually create a folder with the name you want on a drive and that will then automatically become a share of the same name. However if you ever start using ZFS then you will encounter issues with such names.

Thanks for your reply.

2 minutes ago, itimpi said:

However if you ever start using ZFS then you will encounter issues with such names.

I have been using ZFS since quite the beginning. Definitely created the shares on different ZFS-pools (because an Array didn't work for me) and never experienced any issues...so I don't really understand this restriction... So what might be the possible issues?

i think something went very funky when the first char of the dataset was a number with something. i did check the pr, but it doesnt mention it https://github.com/unraid/webgui/pull/1334
could be wrong.

Edit: Argh wrong commit, this one https://github.com/unraid/webgui/commit/ff34cbd52893b7d60483499965c2ef6473da8f8b

Edited March 23Mar 23 by Mainfrezzer

10 hours ago, ursicin said:

Thanks for your reply.

I have been using ZFS since quite the beginning. Definitely created the shares on different ZFS-pools (because an Array didn't work for me) and never experienced any issues...so I don't really understand this restriction... So what might be the possible issues?

I do not use ZFS myself, but when I google for valid names on ZFS systems the same restrictions are listed. No idea what the effects of not adhering to them might be.