Hey all,

 

I'm trying to come up with an easy way to migrate my data to a new user share structure...currently I have:

 

Movies/

Music/

TV/

 

All set up as user shares.  What I would like to do is set up a structure where those are all under a share called "Media"

 

Media/Movies

Media/Music

Media/TV

 

Is there any way to do that without having to copy the files?  I'd like to use disk-by-disk 'mv' so it is just updating the filesystem and not actually moving all the bits around.  Anyone know if this is possible?

If you go to each disk share (after temporarily turning off user shares) and create a folder called media on each of the affected drives, then move the previous folders (movies, music, tv) into the new media folder, the folder entries only will be moved, the files will stay in place.  Then delete the old user shares and restart user shares.  You should be in like Flint... 

 

That worked, but I now have another problem

 

I've moved all of the share "Movies" to it's new home.  However I had a cache disk enabled on it and I think that is preventing me from deleting the share.  I'm a bit concerned as there are 88 directories on the cache disk, none of them seem to have any data in them, but I didn't want to just force things without input to know I was doing the right thing

 

Oddly enough, it looks like the new "Media" share (Which has /Movies and /TV under it) is being shared, but the data being shared is that from the cache disk directory for "Movies".  I'm really confused now.

If cache is your problem (maybe it isn't), then what stops you from unassigning cache from unRAID, clean it, maybe even reboot unRAID just-in-case and then reassign?

 

 

That's what I ended up doing.  Apparently the Cache drive maintains the directory structure after the files are moved (Perhaps a hangon from 4.3.3?).  When I rebooted to clean it, the shares were gone.  Everything seems to be working perfectly now!