I'm running 5.0-rca8 and just finished pre-clearing my drives.  I have three 2TB drives and have mounted two of them (excluding the parity) to prepare myself for copying my files over.  When I go to create a share through the web interface I used these settings,

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After I created this share I created a directory structure on disk1 of media/Movies and /media/Television on disk2.  When I browse my media directory I thought I was gong to see a Movies & Television folder but I only see my Movies folder.  I do not want to start moving my media until I know that this has been set up correctly.  Can someone please tell me what I am missing.

 

 

If it matters I am running this as a virtual machine on ESXI.

split level 0 means, that everything inside your share will be created on the same disk.

what you are looking for, would be split level 1 (everything inside the first subdirectory will be created on the same disk)

How did you create the Movies and Television directories?

Are you sure about about share level 0?  In the example on the wiki http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Split_Level_0 they have share level 0 spanning over multiple disks depending on the directory structure.

 

 

If I use share level 1 and add a "disk3" to help extend my movies collection later would it copy movies to this disk keeping them in the same folder and fill it up using the allocation method assigned to this share?  if so what is the difference between share 1 and 0? 

How did you create the Movies and Television directories?

 

@dgaschk, I created them by going to the disk1 and disk2 shares on my network.  How should I have created them?

 

After I created this share I created a directory structure on disk1 of media/Movies and /media/Television on disk2.  When I browse my media directory I thought I was gong to see a Movies & Television folder but I only see my Movies folder.  I do not want to start moving my media until I know that this has been set up correctly.  Can someone please tell me what I am missing.

 

Using similar on my setup at the mo so ill try and help, when your browsing your media directory and only seeing movies whats the location? browsing the following locations should show the following (assuming your server is called Tower if not replace with server name)

 

\\Tower\disk1\media - Should show only Movies

\\Tower\disk2\media - Should show only Television

\\Tower\Media - Should show all folders from the media folders on all disks  - Should show Movies & Television

 

You have set it up correct so it should show in this way as i did it the same, with more folders, and it works fine.

 

Oh and fyi you can have split level 0 across multiple disks as far as i understand it you just have to create the same folder on each disk manually, for example if you created a "music" folder in the media folder on both disk1 and disk 2 and then copied a file to \\Tower\media\music it will select the disk on which to store the file by the allocation method

 

Think i got that right (im still new to unraid) if not someone will be along to correct me

 

I'm not sure if this is the solution or not but it seems to be working for me now.  I removed all shares, deleted all folders, stopped then restarted the array, created my folders /disk1/media/Movies & /disk2/media/Television, then recreated the share.  I'm only assuming that since I created the share before creating the folders it didn't read the folders therefore never showed them correctly.

You could try stopping and starting the user share. New directories created in the disk share should show up in the user share.

You could try stopping and starting the user share. New directories created in the disk share should show up in the user share.

 

I tried this first and nothing happened.