July 17, 201213 yr Apparently my upgrade to 5.0 blanked out my split level setting...and even before then things were getting out of hand. So I have a question for the group at large... In an array that's gotten out of hand, what is the best way to recover and get directories on the same drive? The thought of going directory by directory and manually moving files around just hurts my brain. I was thinking about creating new shares and just moving things over to the cache drive and letting the mover fix things up. Right now I have: Media -Movies -<Movie directories> -TV -<Show> -<Season> My thought is to create two shares, TV and Movies so I can deal with them separately. Then migrate all the media..movies would be easy to just move on the same disk (99% of them are one file). However...recovering the TV shows is going to be a huge effort. I'm just not sure if it would be better to "move" them to my desktop one at a time...then move them back into the TVs share...or if there is some other trick people have? So people know, I have a largeish TV collection...which is why doing it by hand hurts my brain: root@Storage:/mnt/user/Media# du -sh TV 5.6T TV root@Storage:/mnt/user/Media# du -sh Movies 4.8T Movies root@Storage:/mnt/user/Media#
July 18, 201213 yr Easiest would be to move to the cache drive and then let the mover put it back right. Just get the split level set right this time.
July 18, 201213 yr Author Yea, I had to fudge it due to a media center solution that needed all of the media in one directory. Now that that is over (thank god) I can go back to splitting them up. Thanks for the advice .
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