Here's how my shares are configured:

 

disk4 fills up to 0 free space and starts to error out when copying things to it. It's not rolling over to disk5.

 

What do I need to change?

First of all, are you using user shares or disk shares (or both)?  If you are copying files to a disk share and the disk is full, the transfer will fail.  unRAID will not automatically 'roll over' a transfer to a different share in this case.  unRAID can only be intelligent about where to place your files if you use user shares.

 

Assuming you are using user shares: on the 'settings' page, do you have any includes or excludes set up?  If so, you may need to adjust them.  Say you have a user share called 'Movies'.  If 'Movies' includes both disk4 and disk5, then once disk4 is full, future transfers should automatically roll over to disk5.  For this case, you would want to leave the 'excludes' field blank, or at least don't enter either disk4 or disk5 into it.  You could 'exclude' disk1, disk2, and disk3 though.  If both 'includes' and 'excludes' are left blank, then unRAID assumes that any disk in your array is fair game, and will choose based on your 'min free space' setting (or 'fill up' or the third option, I can't remember its name at the moment).

 

Again assuming you are using user shares: another possible problem with your configuration is your split level setting.  If your split level is set too high, say 10, then unRAID will only split up files that are 10 folders deep.  If it is too low, say 1, then unRAID will scatter your files across all the disks with seemingly no organization.  In most cases, you want your split level set to 3 or 4, but of course this may change depending on the file structure you are using.  Detail your file structure (i.e. root>Movies>Alien>Video_TS>file1, file2, etc. or root>Movies>Alien.avi, or root>Movies>Alien>Alien.avi, etc.) and we can help you choose the split level that is appropriate for you.

You have asked it to only copy to the disk if there is 2 Meg of space left or more.  was that you intention?

 

Units are 1024-byte blocks.  So if you set Min free space to 1000 that would be

1000 x 1024 = 1,024,000 bytes.  2048 = 2,097,152 bytes

 

Second, if there is more space than this available, and if the file starts at 0 bytes and gets incrementally added to, growing the file as it is copied to the server, then you WILL have enough space for the initial tiny file it writes, and you WILL run out of space if it uses all the available space as it grows to fill it.

 

Some copy programs work by creating an initial file of the full size, then filling it.  Those will use the alternate drive, since there is not enough space initially.

 

So, you might have to change the program you are using to perform the copy.

I think my problem is that I was manually creating the shares on the disks and not letting unraid configure them automagically from the web interface.

 

Going to start over with a clean slate and see what I can do.

 

so for 2gb of min free space i want to use: 2,147,483,648

I have the sneaking suspicion that you are posting screenshots that are being blocked by my work computer's firewall, and that I am therefore not seeing.  In the future, would you mind hosting pictures on either imgur or imageshack?  Both of them are excellent and easy to use image hosts, and they are more likely to get by the various firewalls that many of us are behind.

 

Edit: Yep, I just quoted you and saw that you are using getdropbox to host your images.  Dropbox is a great service, but apparently it isn't firewall friendly.  Use either of the hosts I linked above.

so in the "free space" part, I need to put 2,097,152 to equal 2gb? yeah? yeah? yeah?

 

 

Here's an image hosted at imgur:

Since you're making multiple threads for the same question I'll copy my answer to the other one here,

 

Maybe make sure the min free space setting is about 2 times times larger than the largest file size you are moving to the array. So, if you are moving 5gig movie files try something like 10 000 000 for the value which should be 10Gbytes.

 

Otherwise, all your settings look correct so if that's not it then I don't know where the problem is.

 

Peter