Trying to write a 1.85gb file to my share and it keeps writing to disk6 in the share with only 1.82 available, then i get the not enough free space error.  I have high water set and min space available set to 20gb.  See sys log and photo of share setup.

System_Log.txt

What is the path to the file in question?  You have a split level of 2 so only the first two folder levels can be split across disks.  Anything below that is constrained to the disk on which the third level folder is created.

So what would be the fix? setting my split level to 3? Or getting rid of the season folders because I have movies on the same share?

You have to set split levels according to how you want the system to allocate things across disks. There is no 'right' answer as it all depends on how you want to name things.  Note that you can change the split level on an existing share as it only applies to allocating space for new files/folders and does not affect the folders/files already there.

 

You can also put items on specific disks by writing directly to the diskXX type shares.

So my folder setup goes like this

 

movies > actual movie.mkv

 

tv shows > the show > season > episode1.mkv

 

and I have these on the same share.  I set my split level to 3 and got ride of the season folder for this problem and it fixed it.

So its a split level problem.

 

Is there a way I can split this share up into two shares? 

 

So movies would be on one share w/ a split level of 2

and tv shows would be on another w/ a split level of 4 so i can include the season folder?

 

 

All top level folders under /mnt/user become shares.

 

I am assuming that you currently have something like:

 

media/Movies

media/TV Shows

 

If so you could simply use a telnet session and use commands of the form:

  cd /mnt/user

  mv -p "media/Movies" "Movies"

  mv -p "media/TV Shows" "TV Shows"

and at the end you will have two new shares of "Movies" and "TV Shows".  Now you can configure these as you want for split level purposes.

The -p option is to avoid changing permissions on the folders.  If you did this I suspect you will only want a split level of 3 on the TV share - not 4 as you suggested.

 

You could also do this outside a telnet session by creating the new shares via the GUI and then doing a cut/paste to move the existing contents of the Movies and TV Shows folders to their new locations.

Thx for the help, that was buggin the heck out of me.