Hey guys,

i'm new to unraid at just playing a little bit with it atm.

now i have some questions about unraid:

 

1. i'm gonna write on the array /dev/md1 and not on the single HDD's, right?

 

2. I installed unraid on my usb stick and sime plugins (sabnzbd, sickbeard, ...)

 

Now i added my 3tb HDD in the array so i can store some of my media on it. I gonna make something like that on the array:

 

/media

-> /media/music

-> /media/movies

-> /media/tv-series

 

What about the Plugins now? Can i keep the "install directory" on the usb stick and where should i stick it? Atm i get this message: WARNING: Your data directory is not persistent and WILL NOT survive a reboot. Please locate Data Directory on disk for persistency

 

I would change the "data directory" to my array (something like /addons or /apps), or should i move everything on the array?

 

3. How can i automount the array? In unMenu it's look like my array isn't mounted at all?

Welcome jinn,

 

I would recommend to read through the wiki first.

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_with_unRAID

 

Your questions are pretty basic and answered there.

 

 

As was mentioned it is worth reading through the wiki.

 

However, you mention using /dev/md1.  This sounds like you are used to how such devices are normally handled in Linux.  Such devices are handled in a special way by unRAID and you rarely use them directly (unless you have the array in maintenance mode).  Instead you manipulate everything through network shares.  You can have shares visible for individual disks and you can have the user shares that span multiple disks. 

i should looked at "mount" and saw "/dev/md1 on /mnt/disk1 type reiserfs"

 

so i think, if i'm going to write on \\tower\disk1 in my windows system (my bad, will be gentoo in some weeks) everything will be handled by unraid? So if my first hdd is full of data it will write the next one on the 2nd hdd, right?

 

thanks fireball, i'm going to read a little bit through the guides (some of them i found myself), maybe u can help me searching the right one for my plugin questions?

 

 

edit: i have some really bad problem now

the first 500GB hdd i just used for testing was using as one of the arrays disks. Yesterday i formatted this hdd as ext4 and copied some files on it. After i started unraid today this hdd was formatted as reiserfs is there anyway to rescue my data now?

Read through the configuration tutorial.

 

You will get a good overview and hopefully an idea how unRAID is supposed to be used.

Setting up shares a.s.o.

Nevertheless, I recommend reading the whole guide.

 

For the use of plugins, you can stick to the recently developed control panel.

 

But beware, plugins may interfere with unRAID GUI so that it becomes unresponsive.

You should install the clean powerdown script first in oder to be able to cleanly power down the server if you lost the GUI.

This script can be installed via the unMENU.

 

 

 

the first 500GB hdd i just used for testing was using as one of the arrays disks. Yesterday i formatted this hdd as ext4 and copied some files on it. After i started unraid today this hdd was formatted as reiserfs is there anyway to rescue my data now?

Consider your data as lost

(unless there is a REALLY GOOD ext4fsck utility similar to the reiserfsck utility used on reiserfs file systems that can scan the entire disk for ext4 files.)

 

unRAID always re-formats disks assigned to the array or cache as reiserfs.

the first 500GB hdd i just used for testing was using as one of the arrays disks. Yesterday i formatted this hdd as ext4 and copied some files on it. After i started unraid today this hdd was formatted as reiserfs is there anyway to rescue my data now?

Consider your data as lost

(unless there is a REALLY GOOD ext4fsck utility similar to the reiserfsck utility used on reiserfs file systems that can scan the entire disk for ext4 files.)

 

unRAID always re-formats disks assigned to the array or cache as reiserfs.

 

i'm gonna make some dd of the partition and test photorec first. than reformat as ext4 and make another photorec test and then test fsck good this data wasn't sooooo important for me