February 8, 201412 yr Hi folks, I'm having an issue where my user share isn't using all disks. I've tried various permutations of the share settings to try and get this thing to use all my disks to no avail I'm running unraid 5.0. My share settings are as follows: Name: Media Comments: Media Allocation method: High-Water Min. free space: blank Split level:999 Included disk(s): blank Excluded disk(s): blank Use cache disk: no Share empty? no Disks 1 and 2 are full up and Disks 3 and 4 have plenty of space but are not getting used. I read the wiki and quite a few posts on the subject and thought that setting the split level to 999 would solve the problem but It hasn't. My share's folder structure is like this: \\Media\TV\ \Show1\ \Season1 \Season2 \Show2\ \Season1 \Season2 etc. I also have a movies folder with a similar structure off the root: \\Media\Movies\movie1\video.mkv \movie2\video.mkv etc. I realize that I'm not giving you loads of data but i'm relatively new to unix so I would appreciate any support you could provide.
February 8, 201412 yr I suspect that although you say disk 1 and 2 are full up, there may actually be a very small amount of space still unused. As you have nothing set in the Min. Free space field it will try to use one of thsee disks but then very quickly give an out of space error. So my suggestion would be to set the min free space with a value which is larger than the largest file you are likely to write; this will then ensure unraid finds a disk with at least this amount of free space before it starts writing the file .... which should then make it write to disk 3 or 4.
February 9, 201412 yr Author Figured it out! I didn't realize there was a master setting for disks allowed. Silly me! Thanks for your reply remotevisitor!
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