getting my feet wet with unraid and need some help. I have an array of 2 drives and created a user share called "tv shows" with a split level of 2. Then installed snap and mounted my data drive from my old win7 box that has all my shows on it. Now I want to copy the data from the snap drive to the array. If I copy the files to /mnt/disk1/tv shows will unraid create a tv shows folder on disk2 when the high water point is reached and copy to that folder, if not do I need to copy to the share point instead of disk1 and how do I access the share point from the cp command.

 

thanks

 

Bob

I don't think you should mount the drive.  You should mount the share. When you copy to the share, unraid will manage the file placement. When the size limits are hit, unraid will move to the next drive as needed.

If you put stuff directly to the drive, I do not think unraid will do anything for you except parity protection.

 

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I think you are correct about unraid, my problem is i do not know the syntax to mount the share, anyone help?

 

thanks

 

I think it would be /mnt/disk1/sharename

You might find this helpful. I looks like the easy way is to use Midmight Commander.

In telnet window type mc. Use Putty to telnet if the screen looks garbled, in Putty setting click

on translation and change to ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe)

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Configuration_Tutorial#Copying_Files_From_an_Internal_or_External_Hard_Drive

/mnt/disk1/sharename looks like it points to the folder, however /mnt/user/sharename looks like the answer. If anyone knows if this is correct, please let me know.

 

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Why do you need to mount a drive?  You say that you have all data on win7 pc.  Just open win explorer network ...  select tower and you should see your share as available option.

You can even map it as a drive in windoes.

 

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Snap is only used to make drives that are in the system but not part of array acecible. So if you have an hdd with data, and add it to the unraid system. You than mount it with snap.  And use mv or something to transfer data. Like "mv  mnt/disk#/yoursnapshare mnt/user/yourarrayshare" if you copy you data via network from source pc you just drop it onto your share directly.

 

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Oops ,  I have reread your post again. You are actually added the drive to the system.  So just mounted with snap. And command from my last post should do the trick. 

 

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thanks, I was pretty sure /mnt/user/sharename was the trick.