I think I may have made a few cock ups by attempting to install some plugins/packages without really knowing what I'm doing. How can I do a clean install of unRAID without losing my Array information? I don't care about losing any plugin settings - the only things I'm bothered about keeping are Screen, Preclear and unMenu. I've already manually removed all the packages/plugins I didn't want by putting my Flash drive into my Windows computer, but I don't know enough about using Telnet/Terminal to want to go fiddling around in hidden folders I may or may not need to (do I need to??).

 

Is this possible or even advisable?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks.

I always find this post useful to understand how things get automatically installed.

 

There may be some folders left behind from plugin/package data but if the install files are not there anymore then the plugin/package will not be run when you boot.

Gotcha, thanks trurl. The OCD side of me dislikes the idea of there being rogue, unused folders left on my flash drive, but I guess as long as they're not interfering with the order of things when unRAID boots then I'm not bothered.

 

If I try to reinstall a package/plugin in future though, might what's on the drive already not interfere though?

Depends on how the plugin is written.

 

I just delete the folders belonging to specific plugins in /mnt/cache/apps. If you know where you told the plugins to put data you should be able to do something similar. Anything not in /boot or /mnt will not exist on reboot anyway. If you re-install the application files then I think it will probably just overwrite most of it. Might possibly inherit some config from an old install but you will probably set those anyway with the plugin interface in the webGUI

Thanks trurl