As I was getting my syslog together for my other problem I noticed a lot of duplicate file entries but when I browsed through the disks using the File Browser in the unraid browser management console, it would only appear as having one copy of each of those files and they were all appearing as duplicates on disk 11 but I couldn't see what they were duplicates of.

 

I hope that's clear but basically I was wondering if there was an easy way to take care of these duplicates and if there's no short and simple way (I would rather short just cause it's easier :-P) what is the long way to do find which duplicates are on which disks etc. and take care of them?

 

Thanks in advance

syslog_16092012.txt

They are duplicate file NAMES and paths, not necessarily duplicate files. Example... /mnt/disk1/pictures/pets/photo1.jpg and /mnt/disk2/pictures/pets/photo1.jpg are different files, but the user share "pictures" can't tell which photo1.jpg you want to see. Easiest way to eliminate the message is to change the subfolder name on one of the disks, like pets to pets1 on one of the disks, or if it's in the root of a share, pictures in my example, that would create a new share, so create a new folder and move the offending files there. Once you have cleaned up the naming conflicts, you can go on to the next step.

 

To determine if they are actually duplicate contents, you would need to do more work, my current favorite method is to run Clonespy on the disks from a windows box.

All of the stuff on my server has been individually named by me, rather than being autonamed by say, a camera or whatever.

 

So I am going to try and run that clonespy thingy and see what happens. What's the best way to get it to actually scan all the discs, cause the share I have just makes it look like a single drive to my windows boxes.

Turn on disk shares.