I have been running my unraid server with no problems and suddenly today when i went to create a folder on my pictures share it tells me i dont have enough free disk space to do so.  see the attached screenshot. 

 

This was from a windows 7 system.  there is 268GB free on the share so there shouldnt be any problems with disk space.  Can somepone tell me how to troubleshoot this?

 

I've found a reboot of unraid followed by a reboot of windows takes care of that

 

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thanks for the reply.  I tried doign exactly that when this first happened and had no luck

if it helps - here is a link to my syslog

 

http://pastebin.com/3X6GiN3W

What are the share settings? What are the global share settings under Settings?

Ok so I think I discovered the problem.  There were two discs (disk1 and disk3) that were full.  But the shares that contained those disks also contained other disks.  so windows was displaying that there was free space on the share (on the disks other than 1 and 3), but was having trouble writign because those discs were full.

 

So I cleared some space on the full disks and it works now.

 

But now what I am wondering is why that happened?  Windows should have been able to write to the share and have it go to the disks with free space.

 

The share in question (pictures) is set up as follows:

Allocation Method: High-water

Min Free Space: 0

Split Level: 0

Included Disks: disk7, disk3

Excluded Discs: disk1,disk2,disk4,disk5,disk6,disk8

Export (SMB): Export read/write

Most probably an issue with minimal free space setting and/or split level...

so how would one resolve this and prevent it from happening in the future?  if there is free space on the other drives in the share, this should not happen.

Split Level: 0

 

Here's the problem. Each time you create a new directory the new directory is locked to the disk it was created on.

 

You can either;

1. Look at your directory structure and pick a suitable split level.

2. Set the split level very high (say like 50 or 100) and unRAID will pick a suitable disk regardless of directory fragmentation.

3. Manually create the directory on another disk and unRAID will then use that location.

 

Min Free Space: 0

Split Level: 0

 

Both of those can be issues... 

split 0 wont auto create a new folder on the next drive.

free space 0 and you might be trying to write a file to big to fit on the end of a drive before it goes to next disk.

The free space setting is required when using the fill-up method or when the disks are all getting close to full, where the drives might not have enough space for a single file you copy.

 

In this case, it's the split level not allowing the files to go on the disk with plenty of free space. The High Water allocation method would put the files on the drive with lots of free space if the split level setting allowed it.