First, I'm wondering if I'm correct about how this will work. If I make a directory called Videos on disk1 and disk2, then Movies under disk1 and TV under disk2 and then create a user share called Videos, I'll get one share for all my videos, right?  And then if disk1 fills up with too many movies, will it start to overflow to disk2? 

 

Second, how can I share a lower level directory?  On my existing RAID array I have /pub/media/audio/mp3.  /pub is shared as Public, and /pub/media/audio/mp3 is shared as Music for ease of access from Windows systems.  Is there a way I could do something similar with unRAID?  I realize I could just put mp3 as a user share and have it at the root, and this would serve a similar purpose, but sometimes I like to have shortcuts into my directory trees. 

Have you read this section of the unofficial User's Manual?  Be sure to keep reading on through the 'Allocation method', 'Min. Free Space' and 'Split level' sections that follow the initial section. 

 

    http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Export_settings_.28for_unRaid_5.x.29

 

These sections provide a lot of information on shares.  Some of it may seem confusing at first as some of the settings interact.  I.e., Min Free Space and Split level.

 

As questions will remain after reading this material, come back and seek clarification. 

 

I should also point out that once you create a share name (in your case, like 'Movies') on one disk and you have enable that share, the share will automatically expand to other disks that are included in the share as required.  You don't have to add that folder at the root level of each drive that included in the share.

 

With regard to your second question, I don't believe you can create a 'share' that is not a root directory.  You can create a 'mapped drive' on a windows machine that is linked to a directory that is inside of a share on your unRAID server.  But that may or may not not serve your purposes.

I had not drilled down far enough into the wiki to find that information yet.  I had searched for shares but I don't think that page popped up.  Thanks for that, I think it will answer my questions. 

 

The mapped drive should work for my purposes.  Long time ago I used to do this all the time, with earlier versions of Windows that is.  I swear at one time you could right click on any folder on a network share and Map network drive was an option, but on 7 that only shows up for me with a share, not on folders under the share, so I didn't think it was possible.  Now I guess you have to go through a dialog to map any folder and I'd just never looked for it.  Geesh I feel stupid.