Well hello again.

 

So I added a 2TB drive to my array over the past several days and I thought everything was great.

 

But for some reason, one of the disks in my array is now showing full... like REALLY full... 0 bytes free.

 

I THINK this has something to do with the split level settings, but I'm not sure. I've been trying to read through the information on the split-level settings here...

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Split_level

 

But I'm still confused.

 

As of right now, I have my array set with only a single share called "MediaVault". It is a split-level 2. On this, I store Movies, TV shows, Documentary Films, Documentary Series, and Shorts.

 

After reading, I think I've done this incorrectly; I should have created a separate share with split-level 3 for the "Documentary Series" and "TV Shows" contents.

 

Is this correct? If so, how can I correct this oversight.

 

How can I tell the system to move some stuff from one drive to another to free up some space?

 

EDIT: I also don't understand how the disk became filled when I have it set to High-water with a value of 26214400 and there is room on the other disks in the array.

A folder diagram of your media share would be a great help.  What folders you want to keep all the file one the same drive and what folders you don't care if the files are on different drives.  If I didn't use iTunes I would have made a different share for each media type.  If that is an option for you it would give you greater control over split level.

A folder diagram of your media share would be a great help.  What folders you want to keep all the file one the same drive and what folders you don't care if the files are on different drives.  If I didn't use iTunes I would have made a different share for each media type.  If that is an option for you it would give you greater control over split level.

 

Directory Structure: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1233738/directory.txt

 

I've been reading further on it, and I THINK, I sort of understand what happened.

 

My media, right now, is just the types I listed above:

 

Movies

Documentary Films

Documentary Series

TV Shows

Shorts

 

The interface I'm using is the Media Browser plugin on top of Windows Media Center.

 

Right now, I have the single share as "MediaVault".

 

Each of the above folders has the potential of containing either one or two levels of sub-folders; in the case of movies, two levels would occur with a box-set or collection, for series, the series name and then the season.

 

The explanation that's in the wiki, as detailed as it is, seems to say that I should have either a split level 2 or a split level 3. With the series, I think a split level 3 is fairly clear. The confusion comes now with Movies where the split could be either. Should I be running that as a split level 2 or a split level 3?

 

And if I set up separate shares for each of the above categories, how do I move the contents? Will it actually do a physical re-write of everything or just a logical association (I hope I have those terms correct)?

What allocation-method are you using? Does the newly added disk get accessed at all? You might have to restart the array or reboot after adding a disk. What unraid version?

 

Do you have a cache drive with enough space and have set the user-share to use the cache drive? You can use the cache drive and mover to move the files obeying the newly set allocation method and split-level rules.

High-water. Yes, it does get accessed.

 

5.0 RC-5.

 

I moved some stuff off the drive onto another network machine, then back to the unRAID and it has written it to the new disk. Just kind of strange that it got to zero.

 

Should I be changing to multiple shares or just leave it as is for the time being?

 

I don't have a cache drive.

Yes, if you read the initial explanation at the start of the section it's basically describing your structure and tells you what each level means. Anything more than 2 will allow individual movies to fracture and split to multiple drives. It's likely a TV series or a dumentary series that is causing the issue.

 

If you really don't care about files splitting wherever then just set a high split level setting. Otherwise you have to either manually free up space or create multiple user shares.

 

You can open the disk shares on your PC and just copy from disk to disk. I'd suggest copying some of the continuing series to another more free disk. Obviously, you have to go to the disk shares and not the mapped drive you're using.

 

You can move (move, not copy) files to different locations on the same disk and it just changes the filesystem table so it takes very little time. For example, you could create a new TV share simply by opening each disk share and moving the TV directory from the MediaVault directory to the top level of each disk. You may have to stop and start the array but a TV share would appear in the unRAID share settings with default settings. Modify the settings to suit and save them and you're done.

So just one more question for clarification; you don't define a portion of the array when making a share, correct?

 

Like, I don't have to choose now to say... 40% for movies and 60% for TV?

So just one more question for clarification; you don't define a portion of the array when making a share, correct?

 

Like, I don't have to choose now to say... 40% for movies and 60% for TV?

 

No.