Ok guys.  I'm not as native to this stuff as you so be gentle 

 

I am sure that I am being really stupid but here goes.  I have my UnRaid tower set up with 1-3TB Parity drive, and 3-3TB data drives.  My main / most used shares are "Movies" and "TV Shows".  I have never had this problem with the Movies share, only the TV Shows.  Both shares are set to split level 1, most free, and a min space higher than what most files types for that share are.  Both shares are showing 1.83 TB remaining in Unraid.  I always just drag and drop my movie files straight into my Movies share.  My TV shows go into the share "TV Shows" and then with windows explorer I have organized it from TV Shows>NCIS>SeasonX>Bastardlyfilethatwontcopy.  When I try to copy windows says "TV Shows" is full and that I need over 5.xxGB of free space, yet Unraid share page shows 1.83TB remaining.  What am I doing wrong?  What is the best allocation method for what I am using my server for?

 

On a side note when I get this fixed I have a brand new 4TB Seagate that I will be upgrading my parity drive to.  Then my current parity drive will become a 4th 3TB data drive.  Looking forward to adding some more 4TB's soon! 

The thing to remember is that split level overrides allocation method.  Therefore with a split level of 1, once a show (e.g. NCIS) has its folder created on any disk then all contained sub-folders and files are also constrained to that disk.  I am guessing this is why you are getting the error message as there is not sufficient space on the disk that contains NCIS to hold what you are trying to copy in.

 

 

Thanks alot.  I changed the split level to 3 for TV shows and now it works.  Thanks a bunch

Thanks alot.  I changed the split level to 3 for TV shows and now it works.  Thanks a bunch

I think I personally would go with a value of 2 to keep each season constrained to a single disk.  However there is nothing wrong with your value of 3 if you do not want this constraint.