February 4, 201610 yr I am in the middle of moving my data from a share called media to one called media-temp. When I am done, I would like to delete original now empty media share, then rename media-temp to media. What is the best way to go about this? Can I simply delete /mnt/user/media? Do I then have to delete media from each disk i.e. /mnt/disk1/media? Do I have to (or should I) do any of this from the GUI? Once media is gone, and I am only left with media-temp, can I simply rename /mnt/user/media-temp to /mnt/user/media, or should I do this disk by disk? Or, should I do this from the GUI?
February 4, 201610 yr Once you are 100% sure mnt/user/media is empty you can delete it using standard Linux commands. However a safer way is to do this though the GUI, there is a box that you can select (if the user share is empty) to delete it under that shares settings. Deleting mnt/user/media is functionally the same as deleting /mnt/disk1/media for each disk in the array + cache drive. I think you can rename from the GUI, and would recommend that approach if it lets you. I also think you could rename the share using standard Linux renaming format. mv /mnt/user/media-temp /mnt/user/media and it would work fine... but again I think doing this via the GUI reduces the risk so I would recommend trying that first.
February 4, 201610 yr Author Hmm... Thanks gundamguy. Those are all the thoughts I had, but I wonder if someone could way in with more certainty! I don't want to mess up this last step. I don't think much could go wrong either way (command line vs. GUI), but I would like to be sure...
February 4, 201610 yr Community Expert Yes you can do this in the webUI. When a share has no remaining files you can go to the page for that share and check a box to delete it. And you can rename a share on its page. I just did both of these things recently.
February 5, 201610 yr Yes you can do this in the webUI. When a share has no remaining files you can go to the page for that share and check a box to delete it. And you can rename a share on its page. I just did both of these things recently. I feel a bit stupid, did a load of mine recently...... through telnet....
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