Ok, not sure if the recent activity is the root cause, or not -- but for completeness, I added two new 3TB drives and re-added a Cache drive {had forgotten it when I was moving drives around in a new 4x3 cage}

 

I have no shares now.  I manually added, for testing, a "DVDs" and a "Chuck" share -- they also show up blank, with no data in them.

 

I can, however, do a "dir \\unraid\disk1\Chuck" (etc) and SEE that my data is there.... <whew>

 

If I add, manually, a "share" by the right name -- example "Chuck" -- it still is blank (did not exclude any drives).  So just re-building the share entries dosen't seem to fix the problem.

 

Should I start by removing the two new drives and cache drive?  {and initconfig}

 

Or what should I look for/at

 

Attached is Syslog from clean boot - and then the syslog for after "starting" the array and trying to manually create the "Chuck" share.

 

The drives added were

Added:
disk11 	ST3000DM001-9YN166_Z1F0MZ6Y (sdg) 2930266532	
disk12 	ST3000DM001-9YN166_S1F0KCZF (sdh) 2930266532

Re-added Cache - WDC_WD5000AAJS-00YFA0_WD-WCAS80407232 (sde) 

 

and I am running - 5.0-rc5-r8168

 

Zip file contents

syslog-2012-09-03-Before-Starting-Array.txt
syslog-2012-09-03-After-Starting-Array-and-adding-share-Chuck.txt

unraid-Syslog-2012-09-03.zip

Not sure if it's helpful in this case,  but looking at an old thread about 4.x (circa 2008)-- asked for a few commands to be run.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2237.msg17013#msg17013

 

 

ls -lR /mnt/user

 

(Note -- it only shows my 2 shares I manually created, and with little data in them - Chuck is completely blank)

 

ls -lR /mnt/user
/mnt/user:
total 0
drwxrwx--- 2 nobody users 0 Sep  3 10:46 Chuck/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root  0 Sep  3 10:22 DVDs/

/mnt/user/Chuck:
total 0

/mnt/user/DVDs:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Sep  3 10:22 sabnzbd/

/mnt/user/DVDs/sabnzbd:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody users 0 Sep  3 10:22 complete/
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody users 0 Sep  3 10:22 incomplete/

/mnt/user/DVDs/sabnzbd/complete:
total 0

/mnt/user/DVDs/sabnzbd/incomplete:

 

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and shfs is not running..

root@unraid:~# ps -ef | grep shfs
root     25962 16209  0 11:07 pts/0    00:00:00 grep shfs
root@unraid:~#

 

 

I'd bet it's the cache drive. Try unassigning it and restarting the array.

 

If there is nothing on the cache drive that you need, I'd preclear it and reassign it _if_ unassigning it fixes the problem.

Permissions are wrong. Run "newperms /mnt/user/DVDs"

Permissions are wrong. Run "newperms /mnt/user/DVDs"

 

Thanks, did that on both the DVDs folder and Chuck folder namespaces.

 

No change.  (Except the ls -lR shows - "drwxrwx--- 3 nobody users 0 Sep  3 10:22 DVDs/ }

 

Eg, shares still missing all files.

 

Will consider pulling the Cache drive if no other suggestions / checks given here....  am being conservative.