if i have my unraid system already up and running with about 11 tbs worth of stuff on it can i switch between high mark and most free with out messing anything up?

Whenever you boot unRAID, it establishes the User Share system as if this was the very first time you had used User Shares, and bases it on your configuration choices and the files and folders it finds, so I don't believe you should have any difficulties at all.  Just remember to reconfigure, then stop the array and reboot.

 

One disclaimer:  I don't use User Shares myself!

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Ok im having some issues here.  The total size of my array is 11.8 tb.  The free space is still at 959 gb.  Why does it keep telling me that the disk is full when i try and drop a 6 or 7 gig file into it???

 

I have it set to most free now.  I was using high mark but switched it to see if it would make a difference.  It didnt!

 

When i put files(iso's) on my unraid server i use total commander (usually).  I just drop the files right in to the videos share and put them in there proper genre folders as i add them to DVD lobby in main lobby.  Is this the problem?  Do i need to put them directly into the genre folders when i move them from my pc to the unraid server?

 

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I have it set to most free now.  I was using high mark but switched it to see if it would make a difference.  It didnt!

 

Did you reboot?  I don't know for sure, but I think it very possible that a reboot is necessary.

 

The free space of the array doesn't matter when you are writing to a User Share.  What matters as to the Allocation method, is the free space of the specific drives that are included in that User Share, and the free space on any one of the drives included.  If a User Share has 15GB free, but it is split evenly among 3 drives, then a 6GB file cannot fit.  What also matters is if a Split Level rule is forcing it to stay with its fellows, and how much free space is on that drive.  So you could have hundreds of gigs free on other drives, but if a group of files associated with a movie title have started being saved to a disk large enough for the first of it files, but not large enough for the main VOB for example, then there is not enough space to save the files.  unRAID does not know ahead of time what is coming to it.

 

I really don't know if this applies to your situation, just coming up with ideas why it might not think there was room.  You need to provide more info, what drives are a part of this User Share, and how much free space does each one have.  And what are the Split Level settings, and how deep the destination path is.

 

[ Edit:  I'm tired, clarity of the above is low.  Sorry. ]

try these screen shots.  they should tell you what info you need... i think

 

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Sorry, been busy.  There are 7 drives that are too full for that file, that it would not fit on, so it must have been trying to save the 7GB file to one of them, perhaps because the file is part of a group of files that had already started saving to one of these almost-full drives.  Someone with more experience in jockeying files around among their User Share drives may be able to help you further.