Hi,

 

I have a new unraid build (v5rc11) and am trying to transfer a large directory of movies from my disk1 to my disk3, to balance out the storage manually now that all of my drives are in (had to do them one at a time to move my data off a WHS).  Anyway, reading the FAQ about using MC to move/copy, I decided to use the copy command in case anything went wrong, but then I got to wondering what will happen when I manually delete the original set from disk1 (I initiated the copy command directly on the unraid box since I have a screen attached, at least for now).  It occurred to me that if I copy, the Shares folder should show duplicates?  It does not--still has the original number of folders.  Are commands executed directly on the "disk*" folders not picked up by the whatever logic happens behind the scenes with Shares?  To continue the thought... if I am only showing my original number of folders in the Shares directory, and these were originally linked to files stored on disk1, then if I delete those files, how will the Share know to look at disk3?

 

Thanks!

 

Brian

If files/folders are in more than one location, then unRAID will show you the first occurrence of a file via a share accessed from a remote machine.

 

If you use the unRAID GUI Shares tab to look at the contents of each share, then a new feature introduced in rc11 was to show what disks any particular file/folder is locate on.  If there are duplicates then both location will be shown.

Okay, cool, so if I delete them from disk1, the Share will show me the second (and now only) instance on disk3 (this is both a statement and confirmation question).  Perhaps confirmed by the following:

 

I hadn't noticed the GUI feature on the Shares tab, but I just looked at it and clicked on the "explorer" folder and it is starting to show some of the movie folders as existing on both disk1 and disk3.  Very cool!  So, that would seem to confirm the dual locations and that I can safely deleted them from disk1 once the copying is done.

 

Thanks for your reply!  Not only did it answer my question, but also pointed me to a feature I would not otherwise have discovered.

Yes you can delete the duplicates in this case.

 

One point to note if you have copied the files at the Linux level, then it is highly likely that the permissions are no longer correct for unRAID.  The easiest way to correct this is to run the command of the form

newperms /mnt/disk3

where the parameter indicates the path for which all contained files/folders are to have their permissions reset.

 

If you give no parameters to the newperms command then all disks are reset.

Sounds good... I haven't really  explored the issue of permissions yet, but will see what happens after I get all my data transferred and can start working with the shares from my various devices.  Thanks again!