I have a large "Shows" share which until recently has been on a single disk. It contains a separate folder for every show, and each folder contains every episode for that show (no subfolders). As that disk is filling up, I got a second disk and would like to redistribute the files so they're split evenly amongst the disks. I would prefer to let unRAID do this job, so I attempted to do this by creating a new user share using both disks and no cache drive. However when I moved the files to the new share, it simply kept the files on the same disk instead of putting them on disk2 (which is what I assume should happen as it has far more free space). I have also tried different allocation methods.

 

I know that I can just manually move the files to another disk but I'd prefer it if unRAID could do it for me. I have looked for previous topics but haven't found anything that would seem to help.

 

Any ideas?

unRAID won't do it for you.

Files have to be manually moved.

There's no performance penalty from leaving it 'as is.'

Simplest and easiest is to just write new files to unRAID and it'll use the empty drive when its needed.

 

 

If your new share was set to use both disks then unRAID likely won't move the files to the other disk when you move files from the old share to this new share. You can try sharing the disks themselves and copying the files between disks or set the new share to use only disk2 and then move the files to it. You could also try doing a copy to the new share which should use the new disk and then delete the old files after.

Change your share's allocation method to 'most free'.

At least then, newly written files will go to the empty disk...eventually balancing things out.