diskmv -- A set of utilities to move files between disks

[JorgeB]

8 minutes ago, deagle said:

rsync sprayed folders all over the array

Yep, that's a problem with rsync, especially on initial sync as it creates immediately all folders on the first available disk.

[vw-kombi]

I was pointed to these posts as a way to re-group my TV Shows so they are not spread across two disks.  I however do not wish to pass in a target disk but re-group to the same disks they are currently on.  Im not sure if this will work ?

 

My issue :

 

After creating my TVSwhows share - MediaTVShows over two disks, and having the default automatic split, I now have stuff spread over the two disks.  These two 4TB disks have about 600Meg free on each.  I dont have another disk to 'move/consolidate' too - so I wish to do this to the same disks.

 

My structure :

 

Top Dir - media-tvshows

Second Dir - TVShow Name

Third Dir - Season XX

Fourth Dir - Episodes

 

so, after reading this thread, the colsolidate command seems like it can do this - but I want the target disks to be the same disks the stuff is already on.

 

Can a script do this ?

 

Thanks.

 

[vw-kombi]

Never mind - I manually sorted it. (drives are disk2 and disk3)

 

I used krusader to compare the tv shows between the two disks, then used unbalance to select the TV shows that existed on both drives, then it said I would only need 150GB of transfers to move the scattered stuff it back to disk2.  That is running now.

 

Going forward, I have changed the share to NOT automatically split so hopefully the issue will not happen again.

[Shaboobala]

On 8/3/2016 at 10:03 PM, korpo53 said:

Use Putty to remote into your server

 

 

mkdir /boot/scripts
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trinapicot/unraid-diskmv/master/diskmv -O /boot/scripts/diskmv
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trinapicot/unraid-diskmv/master/consld8 -O /boot/scripts/consld8
echo "ln -s /boot/scripts/diskmv /usr/sbin" >> /boot/config/go
echo "ln -s /boot/scripts/consld8 /usr/sbin" >> /boot/config/go

 

 

That'll:

 

• Create a directory to hold the scripts that survives reboots.
• Download the scripts to that directory.
• Add lines to your startup script to create symlinks (shortcuts, sort of) to those permanent files in a non-permanent space that makes them more usable.

 

After doing that, if you don't want to reboot, you can just run the below to create the symlinks right now. They'll get recreated every boot by the go script, so you only have to do this part the first time.

 

ln -s /boot/scripts/diskmv /usr/sbin
ln -s /boot/scripts/consld8 /usr/sbin

 

 

 

 

 I am hoping for a little help I tried installing using the method described but I am getting permission denied errors. I was hoping someone could help me figure out what is wrong. Thanks

[itimpi]

I suspect the instructions are no longer accurate as in the last few Unraid releases security has been tightened so that files on the flash drive are not allowed to have execute permission.

 

instead of using a link as suggested you need to copy the files elsewhere (such as /user/local/bin) and give them execute permission.

[Shaboobala]

Thank you @itimpi for responding. I am pretty new to this. Do you know if there is a tutorial that I can read to learn how to do that. Or do you have time to help guide me through the process?

[Meles Meles]

On 1/12/2022 at 4:18 PM, itimpi said:

I suspect the instructions are no longer accurate as in the last few Unraid releases security has been tightened so that files on the flash drive are not allowed to have execute permission.

 

instead of using a link as suggested you need to copy the files elsewhere (such as /user/local/bin) and give them execute permission.

Or you can just "bash" them into submission.....

 

so instead of just doing

 

diskmv blah blah2

(which will fail as no execute permission on diskmv)

 

do 

 

bash diskmv blah blah2

 

 

[Shaboobala]

Thanks @Meles Meles I am trying to use the consld8 script and  earlier in the thread it says to execute it by using this comand 

 

Quote

find "/mnt/user/Media/Movies" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 consld8 -f

 

if i were to bash would I put it before find? Sprry for my ignorance is its and obvious answer just trying to learn. 

[Meles Meles]

On 1/22/2022 at 6:08 AM, Shaboobala said:

Thanks @Meles Meles I am trying to use the consld8 script and  earlier in the thread it says to execute it by using this comand 

 

 

if i were to bash would I put it before find? Sprry for my ignorance is its and obvious answer just trying to learn. 

 

 

you'd put it just before consold8

 

find "/mnt/user/Media/Movies" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 bash consld8 -f

 

[Shaboobala]

The bash runs the script but it appears I am having permission issues when it tries to move the file. It shows where the files are located and where it wants to move them but then I get this error. Any ideas @Meles Meles

Quote

/usr/sbin/consld8: line 152: /usr/sbin/diskmv: Permission denied

 

[WingmanNZ]

I just discovered these awesome tools and wondered if they respect hardlinks?