Hi All,

 

Thanks in advance for any help.  I have version 5.0.5 Pro.  I have been copying a lot of my old blu rays and dvd's to my server lately and have been running out of room on the cache drive.  I get a notice that I do not have room on the drive to copy the movie. After looking at the cache drive I have 2 folders marked Movies and TV Shows.  There are movies and TV Shows on there since August.  I was curious to why this hasn't "cleared" or written to the array.  When I go to share settings and run the "mover" it will move two or three movies that I recently backed up and then stop.  Only about 30 gigs worth, yet this is a 1 TB drive I am using for the cache drive.  Why would I still have movies on there from August?  I've included two screenshots.

 

Thanks again!

 

Don

I see you have 3 array disks with 0 free. My guess is that is your problem. Depending on how you have those user shares configured, mover may not be able to move them there. A syslog that includes 3:40 am time frame might give a better idea, along with the share settings for those user shares.

Thank you for your help trurl.  I hope this is what you wanted to see.  Also, does that degrade the performance of the unraid with 3 drives full?  Hope you can help   Also, I pulled this syslog off of the main unraid server tab, but they are all from one day........

 

Thanks again!!

Try increasing your Min Free Space to 40000000.  For why, see here:

 

    http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Min._Free_Space

@Frank1940......  I am trying to store some blu rays that are well over 20 gigs.  So if I understand what you are saying, I am trying to put a movie that is say 25 gigs onto a disk that only has 20 gig left and that is my problem?  I've increased the min free space to 40000000 and am now running mover again.

 

I will let you know...... thanks for your help

 

Don

@Frank1940......  I am trying to store some blu rays that are well over 20 gigs.  So if I understand what you are saying, I am trying to put a movie that is say 25 gigs onto a disk that only has 20 gig left and that is my problem?  I've increased the min free space to 40000000 and am now running mover again.

 

I will let you know...... thanks for your help

 

Don

 

As I understand, the design logic (of the file system) is that if there is more than the Min Free Space, the operating system will attempt to store files on that disk UNTIL the actual free space is less than Min Free Space.  (It does not compare the actual file size to the Min Free space!)  Thus, if the actual free space is 20.001GB, it will continue to attempt to store files on that disk regardless of the actual size of the file.  Of course if the actual file size is larger, the store will fail. 

I tried your advice Frank and invoked mover again, and after a few hours mover was done but no change in the free space on my cache drive.  Checked the syslog and had these errors at the time that I tried the mover again.....

 

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid logger: rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(302) [receiver=3.0.7] (Errors)

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid logger: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (29 bytes received so far) [sender]

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid logger: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7] (Errors)

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid logger: ./Movies/The Sorcerer's Apprentice/extrathumbs/thumb1.jpg

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid shfs/user0: shfs_mkdir: mkdir: /mnt/disk3/Movies/The Sorcerer's Apprentice/extrathumbs (28) No space left on device

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid logger: cd+++++++++ Movies/The Sorcerer's Apprentice/extrathumbs/

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid logger: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/mnt/user0/Movies/The Sorcerer's Apprentice/extrathumbs" failed: No space left on device (28)

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid logger: *** Skipping any contents from this failed directory *** (Minor Issues)

Oct 28 16:22:05 UnRaid logger: rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7] (Errors)

 

Any thoughts?  Anyone?

Your split level setting means that it is going to try to put "The Sorcerer's Apprentice/extrathumbs" on the same drive with the other "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" files, so if that is on a drive that is already full then it won't work.

 

You might try moving some files from the full drives to another drive with more space. Maybe move all of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" files to the (top level) Movies folder on another drive with more space (create one if necessary), and then see if mover will put "The Sorcerer's Apprentice/extrathumbs" with them, for example.

My BAD--- I certainly missed that one.  You can also change your split level allow files to (at least) 3 which will allow the "The Sorcerer's Apprentice/extrathumbs" to be created in the array.  See this section for more details:

 

    http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Split_level

 

You will have to analyze your file tree structure to determine what value you will have to set to prevent the problem from returning in the future.  You can see in the example how to do that.  (I believe that split level, in most cases, is only really required if you are going to be storing movies in a DVD directory file setup.  What can happen is that the actual video files in the VIDEO_TS directory get split across two disks.  If the next file is on another disk and that disk is spundown, the video will freeze until that second disk is spun-up and comes ready.)