Hello,

 

Either I am missing something or there is something wrong with my unRaid array.

 

At first i had two disks in my array (1 parity + 1 data). I have created share, set 'High water' allocation. Everything was fine.

 

Then i have added second data disk, precleared, formatted, and restarted array. It is visible in the array, everything is ok.

 

Currently data disk1 (old) has 0.5GB free out of 3TB. New data disk2 has 3TB free out of 3TB.

 

Now when I copy new data to my share, it puts data into the old disk1, not into the new disk2. Is this the way it should be?

 

Thank you

Hello,

 

Either I am missing something or there is something wrong with my unRaid array.

 

At first i had two disks in my array (1 parity + 1 data). I have created share, set 'High water' allocation. Everything was fine.

 

Then i have added second data disk, precleared, formatted, and restarted array. It is visible in the array, everything is ok.

 

Currently data disk1 (old) has 0.5GB free out of 3TB. New data disk2 has 3TB free out of 3TB.

 

Now when I copy new data to my share, it puts data into the old disk1, not into the new disk2. Is this the way it should be?

You probably need to set the split level properly.  (Or included/excluded disks on the user-share.  I'd leave them blank if you want all disks to be used. Otherwise you constantly have to update it when you add a new disk.)

See here:

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

I have set included/excluded disks to empty and my split level is 1.

 

The structure is:

 

disk1:

 

/MOVIES/MovieTitleFolder/MovieFiles

 

disk2:

 

/MOVIES/MovieTitleFolder/Moviefiles

 

The share name is 'MOVIES'.

 

I want each movie title folder to be on single disk. So in my case I should use split level 1, right?

 

 

 

I have set included/excluded disks to empty and my split level is 1.

 

The structure is:

 

disk1:

 

/MOVIES/MovieTitleFolder/MovieFiles

 

disk2:

 

/MOVIES/MovieTitleFolder/Moviefiles

 

The share name is 'MOVIES'.

 

I want each movie title folder to be on single disk. So in my case I should use split level 1, right?

no, see here:

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

you probably want split level 2.

I have set Split level 2 - nothing changes. If i copy file to 'MOVIES' share, it still goes to disk1.

 

If i copy file from disk1 to disk2/Movies folder, it is not visible under main 'MOVIES' share.

 

Somehow it seems that disk2 does not belong to the share......

 

And i did reboot NAS after split level change.

I have set Split level 2 - nothing changes. If i copy file to 'MOVIES' share, it still goes to disk1.

 

If i copy file from disk1 to disk2/Movies folder, it is not visible under main 'MOVIES' share.

 

Somehow it seems that disk2 does not belong to the share......

Did you reboot since setting the new split level?  (It has been reported they are only read once when the share-file-system is initially created on a reboot)

 

You may have an issue with case sensitive names(Linux is case sensitive) You talk of "MOVIES" in your first post and now talk of moving a file to disk2/Movies

 

 

Did you try moving a file to

disk2/MOVIES or disk2/Movies

 

to see what you have, type:

ls -l /mnt/user/MOVIES

and to see if you accidentally created a second mixed-case directory:

ls -l /mnt/user/Movies

Under

Settings->Share Settings

Do you have either the included or excluded disks populated?

 

It is a separate global setting.  It would override the include/exclude available for individual share-directories that you have said are currently blank.

 

Joe L.

Under

Settings->Share Settings

Do you have either the included or excluded disks populated?

 

It is a separate global setting.  It would override the include/exclude available for individual share-directories that you have said are currently blank.

 

Joe L.

 

That was the cause. There was disk1 entered only. Now its all good. Thank you.

Just to clarify. Split level = 1 is the correct setting for the share you describe.

Just to clarify. Split level = 1 is the correct setting for the share you describe.

 

Well...i am confused now....but at first i thought the same..split level 1... 

Yeah, when I read Joe suggesting split level = 2 I was really confused. I have the same folder structure as Razor and use split level = 1. Works great.

I went to split level 1 - works good now

 

Thanks to all.

 

 

Now i need to fill that NAS with Movies....oh, I wish I had invite to PTP... 

Yeah, when I read Joe suggesting split level = 2 I was really confused. I have the same folder structure as Razor and use split level = 1. Works great.

It was I who was confused.    :'(  Sorry.

 

I should add, I use disk shares most of the time and rarely write to the user-shares.  Since I re-balance my media every once in a while on the disks, it does not matter where I write them initially.

 

Joe L.