I have a share that disappeared (one of several, the others all show up, and I can see the data on the drives through the drive shares).

 

My system is an Acer H340 (Originally WHS V1 server, with 4 internal drives, and a TRU4M external case with 4 more drives).  I have attached the syslog.  I'm running 5.0 RC11

 

I was attempting to make a symlink on my cache drive back to my Videos share (was doing this to have YAMJ's HTML files on the cache drive).  I did this with the following command ln -s /mnt/user/Videos Videos, and was in mnt/cache when I executed the command.  When I did this, the system locked up, and I was forced to open another putty window and do a shutdown from the command line (GUI was non responsive), and after this is when my problems started.

 

When I rebooted, my Videos share was gone, but 2 new shares showed up (these shares have the same name as 2 folders I had created on my cache drive, Jukebox and PS3).  I tried to delete the 2 new shares, but that doesn't work (they still show up), and neither does trying to create a new Videos share (I click ok, and nothing happens).  So at this point, I shutdown, and copied my backup of the flash drive onto it and rebooted.  I'm still getting the same thing (2 new shares that I can't delete, and no Videos share).  I did verify that boot/config/shares/Videos.cfg exists and is valid (I've attached that file as well).  I'm kind of out of ideas at this point. 

Syslog.txt

Videos.cfg

Update:  I have partially solved the problem.  I logged onto the machine with putty, and was able to determine that there was a sym link in /mnt/user called Videos (pointing to /mnt/user/Videos).  So it seems like my symlink command created a continuous loop (just guessing here)  Once I deleted this and rebooted, my Videos share is back (not sure how it survived the refresh of the flash drive, but that's not a big deal). 

 

However, I'm still seeing the 2 new shares, and not able to delete them (or the test new share I created to see if I could create a new share).  Any ideas?

To delete a share from the unraid webgui the share needs to be empty. If you see no files in the share enable hidden files view and check to see if there are any files. Delete then clear the share name in the webgui and you should be good to go.

I tried that, but didn't have any luck (and I did verify the shares were empty). 

 

I'm thinking it was because the directories were still on my cache drive.  So I removed the directories on the cache drive, and restarted the array and they went away.  For my test share, I ended up deleting the config file for that share, and the directory on the array drive, then restarting the array.