February 16, 201313 yr Hi All I'm a new user and have just built my unRaid Server 3 data drives, cache and parity. I had to migrate data from my WHS, so had to add drives gradually. I created a user share for movies and set split level wrong, so now I have movie and some meta data on disk 1 and other metadata on disk 2 (i.e. each movie folder spans 2 disks). If I change split level to 1, will it combine the movie folders split across 2 disks? If not, is there an easy way to do this? For example, I have Movies/bottleshock on disk 1 and Movies/Bottleshock on disk 2. I want the entire folder botleshock on disk 1. Secondly, disk 1 (2TB) is 93% full and disk 2 (2TB in the same user share) is 5% full. They are both set for highwater, but i had to copy all my movies to disk 1 to format disk 2. is there a way to rebalance these so that thay are both ~50% full? Thanks Mark
February 16, 201313 yr Changing the Split Level seems to only apply to new files - it does not affect files already there. Therefore you will still see Movies/Bottleneck that is split across two disks as a single item on the share. UnRAID will NOT move the files to a single disk because you changed the Split Level. If you want to rebalance the disks then you need to need to move the files between the disks yourself. You could do this by copying between the individual disk shares at the network level. Alternatively you can do this (with better performance) from a telnet session using raw Linux commands or a tool such as Midnight Command (mc). Note that if you do it from a telnet session you will probably need to re-run the New Permissions script (newperms) to ensure that all permissions are correct.
February 16, 201313 yr I'd move everything from disk2 into disk1 to combine all that split stuff back together and then move 1/2 of the disk1 contents to disk2. Do disk to disk, not in the share.
February 16, 201313 yr Or you could move everything in question to the cache disk, and it will adhere to the new split settings when it puts everything back to the individual disks for you.
February 17, 201313 yr Or you could move everything in question to the cache disk, and it will adhere to the new split settings when it puts everything back to the individual disks for you. This is a good solution, other than the fact that cache drives are normally a lot smaller than data/parity drives, meaning, if your drive is 93% of 2TB (1.86TB) then I really doubt you'll be able to fit all of it onto a cache drive.
February 17, 201313 yr Or you could move everything in question to the cache disk, and it will adhere to the new split settings when it puts everything back to the individual disks for you. This is a good solution, other than the fact that cache drives are normally a lot smaller than data/parity drives, meaning, if your drive is 93% of 2TB (1.86TB) then I really doubt you'll be able to fit all of it onto a cache drive. The procedure can be done piecemeal.
February 17, 201313 yr Why would you move 93% of a full 2T drive to the cache drive? Move the 5% off disk2 to disk1 so the split level issue is fixed and then move some stuff to disk2. I wouldn't even bother moving 1T of data. Try about 200-300gig to start. There is nothing wrong with the disks not both being equally full.
February 17, 201313 yr The only reason I can think of to move files between disks is to group categories and simplify inventory.
February 17, 201313 yr Why would you move 93% of a full 2T drive to the cache drive? Move the 5% off disk2 to disk1 so the split level issue is fixed and then move some stuff to disk2. I wouldn't even bother moving 1T of data. Try about 200-300gig to start. There is nothing wrong with the disks not both being equally full. I reread the thread, I see that he wanted the data moved off drive 2, I have zero idea what I was thinking.
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