Hello, id like to now how to do it.

 

Me and a friend of mine are going to live together in one household. Everyone has an unraid system. How can we put everything together? Can we just put his drives into my server, boot it up and unraid recognises his shares?

 

Whats the perfect workaround?

 

Greetings!

 

 

Merging two together is much easier to splitting two apart, especially when you intermix the user shares. If you feel that you will EVER need to split them up again, I would not intermingle the disks onto one physical machine.

 

What I think is possible, but someone that knows Linux better than me would have to answer, is to link files across the machines. So in essence, his files would have directory entries on your machine, and your files could appear to be on his. In this way, his files could appear to be in your user shares and vice versa.

 

I know that you can mount one of his disks on your machine. Maybe you could mount an entire user share from his machine. I believe if you set the mount point on one of your directories that is included in the user share, that they would show up in your user share. This may even be easier.

 

Do a little research and playing around to see what is possible. Just make sure you don't get yourself into a self-referencing loop (not sure if Linux would protect you from this or not!)

I'd just run both systems - all you need to do is be sure they have unique names ... i.e. \\Julian and \\JuliansFriend

 

If you want all the content on the same system, just add enough space to the "master" system and then copy all the data from the other system to that system [use a sync utility so dups won't be copied].

 

But to directly answer your question:  Yes, you could simply add all of his data drives to your system;  do a New Config (IMPORTANT -- if you just add his drives without doing that they'll all be cleared]; and then let parity recompute.    If you're going to do that, be sure that (a) both systems are "clean" before you start (good parity checks with zero errors); and be aware that if you have duplicate files on the two systems it could take some effort to "clean it up" after the merge.