June 23, 201511 yr I just setup my new server with unRAID 6b15 as a guest VM on ESXi 5. As soon as I turned on user shares I noticed there were 3 default shares of Boot, Recovery, and System Volume. What are these shares for and why are they not on my backup unRAID server which is also version 6b15? Does it have something to do with the cache drive since my backup server doesn't have a cache drive?
June 23, 201511 yr Community Expert I just setup my new server with unRAID 6b15 as a guest VM on ESXi 5. As soon as I turned on user shares I noticed there were 3 default shares of Boot, Recovery, and System Volume. What are these shares for and why are they not on my backup unRAID server which is also version 6b15? Does it have something to do with the cache drive since my backup server doesn't have a cache drive? There are no default shares. However a share is created with default settings for each top level folder on any drive. This suggests that you have folders with those names on at least one drive.
June 23, 201511 yr Author I just setup my new server with unRAID 6b15 as a guest VM on ESXi 5. As soon as I turned on user shares I noticed there were 3 default shares of Boot, Recovery, and System Volume. What are these shares for and why are they not on my backup unRAID server which is also version 6b15? Does it have something to do with the cache drive since my backup server doesn't have a cache drive? There are no default shares. However a share is created with default settings for each top level folder on any drive. This suggests that you have folders with those names on at least one drive. Ahhhh, that makes sense since I had tested this cache drive in a Windows system previously. Didn't think anything of it since unRAID never asked me to format it but I see I can just change the file system to XFS and then it will ask me to format it. Thanks!
June 23, 201511 yr Community Expert I just setup my new server with unRAID 6b15 as a guest VM on ESXi 5. As soon as I turned on user shares I noticed there were 3 default shares of Boot, Recovery, and System Volume. What are these shares for and why are they not on my backup unRAID server which is also version 6b15? Does it have something to do with the cache drive since my backup server doesn't have a cache drive? There are no default shares. However a share is created with default settings for each top level folder on any drive. This suggests that you have folders with those names on at least one drive. Ahhhh, that makes sense since I had tested this cache drive in a Windows system previously. Didn't think anything of it since unRAID never asked me to format it but I see I can just change the file system to XFS and then it will ask me to format it. Thanks! I am not sure that doing so will remove the automatically created share from the list. You should check what shares are present after reformatting (and please report back on results for future reference).
June 23, 201511 yr Author I just setup my new server with unRAID 6b15 as a guest VM on ESXi 5. As soon as I turned on user shares I noticed there were 3 default shares of Boot, Recovery, and System Volume. What are these shares for and why are they not on my backup unRAID server which is also version 6b15? Does it have something to do with the cache drive since my backup server doesn't have a cache drive? There are no default shares. However a share is created with default settings for each top level folder on any drive. This suggests that you have folders with those names on at least one drive. Ahhhh, that makes sense since I had tested this cache drive in a Windows system previously. Didn't think anything of it since unRAID never asked me to format it but I see I can just change the file system to XFS and then it will ask me to format it. Thanks! I am not sure that doing so will remove the automatically created share from the list. You should check what shares are present after reformatting (and please report back on results for future reference). I stopped the array and changed the file system on the cache drive to XFS. Once I re-started the array unRAID showed the cache drive as an unformatted drive. I formatted it and it added it to the array and those shares I referred to in the OP are gone now.
June 23, 201511 yr I assumed that would be the case, since there are no longer top-level folders with those names. But nice to confirm that.
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