February 27, 201610 yr Hello!I have recently purchased unraid. I had a test setup before I purchased with three drives, 1 Parity, 1 cache, and 1 data and then I added 3 more data drives. I have did the format/wipe process and now my user shares are showing up empty and all of the shares are disk 1. I have tried to copy the shares from the disk 1 to the user shares but i dont have enough room for the copy process. Is there a way I can get the user shares to expand accross all of the drives? Thanks for the help!
February 27, 201610 yr Did you add the new drives to the shares via your Global Shares settings? UI / Settings / Global Share Settings / Include Disks
February 28, 201610 yr Hello!I have recently purchased unraid. I had a test setup before I purchased with three drives, 1 Parity, 1 cache, and 1 data and then I added 3 more data drives. I have did the format/wipe process and now my user shares are showing up empty and all of the shares are disk 1. I have tried to copy the shares from the disk 1 to the user shares but i dont have enough room for the copy process. Is there a way I can get the user shares to expand accross all of the drives? Thanks for the help! Unraid won't reallocate the files for you. The logic settings (Split Levels, Excludes [or Includes], and High-water [fill-up etc.]) only apply when files are writen to the array. There is no function that reallocates files later. If you have these set correctly your user shares will expand across all the drives, according to the logic you set. Big word of caution. "I have tried to copy the shares from the disk 1 to the user shares" Make sure you know exactly what you are doing when you attempt this, because if you mix user shares and disks in your commands you can end up causing corruption and data loss. This is known as the user share copy bug (it's not really a bug, but a known issue with file systems in user space) If you are going to relocate your files go from Disk to Disk or Share to Share, never mix the two.
February 28, 201610 yr Community Expert The OP makes me wonder if you haven't accidentally created a user share named disk1. Go to Shares - User Shares and post a screenshot.
February 29, 201610 yr Author I checked the global shares and it says "ALL" and I have attached screenshots for the global shares and the user share as well as what it looks like in my file explorer http://imgur.com/a/dBy6O
February 29, 201610 yr Okay, your Global shares says all disks are available for shares. You also need to be sure each of the defined user shares are set to use all disks as well [it appears they are, but you should confirm this]. It is not clear what you tried to do at this point => Are you simply trying to move some data from disk1 to another disk? Be CERTAIN that you do NOT try to move data by making the destination a user share if the source is a component of that share. e.g. do NOT move data from \\Tower\disk1\media to \\Tower\media That will cause COMPLETE LOSS of the data !! [This is called the "user share copy bug"] If you outline what you're trying to do, we can probably guide you through it.
February 29, 201610 yr Community Expert The thing about your screenshots that seems wrong is Enable disk shares: Auto. As you can see if you turn on Help, that setting means only disk shares not participating in User Shares may be exported. That would seem to mean that you shouldn't see any disks in your Windows screenshot. Have you recently changed these settings? Which of the disks, including cache, show that you have data on them when looking at them in Windows? Which of the user shares if any show that you have data in them when looking at them in Windows? Why do you want to move the data? If you set your user shares up correctly you may find that moving the data to any specific disk is unimportant anyway. What exactly are you trying to accomplish by moving your data?
February 29, 201610 yr ... The thing about your screenshots that seems wrong is Enable disk shares: Auto. Good point. Not sure if this means he changed it at some point; or if the default behavior has been modified in 6.1.8. Clearly he has NOT, however, created shares with these names, as they would show up in list of user shares. phrantik69 => Answer the question about detailing what exactly you're trying to do; and also post a screenshot of the Main tab.
February 29, 201610 yr Author What I am trying to do is have the shares Media, appdata, and downloads span accross all of the drives. I have already put my media data in the media usershare before adding the new 3 drives to the array and now all of the files are missing from the Media usershare and now only accessible in the disk1\media folder and the \media folder is empty. Also here is a screenshot of the main page. http://imgur.com/v4xujN5
February 29, 201610 yr Author The thing about your screenshots that seems wrong is Enable disk shares: Auto. As you can see if you turn on Help, that setting means only disk shares not participating in User Shares may be exported. That would seem to mean that you shouldn't see any disks in your Windows screenshot. Have you recently changed these settings? Which of the disks, including cache, show that you have data on them when looking at them in Windows? Which of the user shares if any show that you have data in them when looking at them in Windows? Why do you want to move the data? If you set your user shares up correctly you may find that moving the data to any specific disk is unimportant anyway. What exactly are you trying to accomplish by moving your data? I have turned off all of the user shares except for Cache because I really dont need them and I can now access "appdata" and "downloads" but still not media
February 29, 201610 yr Community Expert The thing about your screenshots that seems wrong is Enable disk shares: Auto. As you can see if you turn on Help, that setting means only disk shares not participating in User Shares may be exported. That would seem to mean that you shouldn't see any disks in your Windows screenshot. Have you recently changed these settings? Which of the disks, including cache, show that you have data on them when looking at them in Windows? Which of the user shares if any show that you have data in them when looking at them in Windows? Why do you want to move the data? If you set your user shares up correctly you may find that moving the data to any specific disk is unimportant anyway. What exactly are you trying to accomplish by moving your data? I have turned off all of the user shares except for Cache because I really dont need them and I can now access "appdata" and "downloads" but still not media Your earlier screenshot of the use shares shows a share of 'Media', not 'media'. Windows (and Samba are case insensitive, but Linux is not). If you have both a 'media' and a 'Media' folder on any of your disks then only one of them will show up under the Media share and it is not very predictable as to which it will be. If you are in that situation then until you correct the issue at the Linux level you will not see what you expect.
February 29, 201610 yr Author Sorry, I mistyped, it is actually Media and I can see it but when open "Media" from windows its empty
February 29, 201610 yr Community Expert I have turned off all of the user shares except for Cache because I really dont need them and I can now access "appdata" and "downloads" but still not media Worth noting that cache is a disk share, not a user share, and is subject to the same hazards as any other disk share. Do not attempt to copy or move data from a user share to cache or from cache to a user share.
February 29, 201610 yr ... I have turned off all of the user shares except for Cache ... ?? Why ?? Do you see your media data okay if you go to \\Tower\disk1\Media ??
February 29, 201610 yr One other thing => You've apparently been making several changes to your settings. Just in case something hasn't worked properly, reboot your server and see if the behavior changes.
February 29, 201610 yr Author ... I have turned off all of the user shares except for Cache ... ?? Why ?? Do you see your media data okay if you go to \\Tower\disk1\Media ?? Sorry I meant I turned off all of the disk shares except for cache, (still getting used to the terminology) and when I turn on the disk1 disk share I can see my data from \\Tower\disk1\Media I will reboot the system when I get home and see if anything changes
February 29, 201610 yr If you have user shares enabled (on the Global Settings page); and the Media share is seen on the Shares tab; then you should absolutely see the content when you access the Media share over the network.
February 29, 201610 yr Community Expert I will reboot the system when I get home and see if anything changes If you can access this remotely, instead of rebooting you might just try stopping and starting the array since this is when unRAID figures out the shares.
February 29, 201610 yr Yes, stopping and then restarting the array may indeed do the trick. For that matter, if you can access this remotely, you can also reboot the server remotely => while the array's stopped you can restart it.
February 29, 201610 yr Community Expert I have turned off all of the user shares except for Cache because I really dont need them and I can now access "appdata" and "downloads" but still not media If you have turned off User Shares why would you even expect to be able to access the Media User Share? Note also, as has been mentioned, that 'cache' is not a User Share but a Disk Share.
February 29, 201610 yr I have turned off all of the user shares except for Cache because I really dont need them and I can now access "appdata" and "downloads" but still not media If you have turned off User Shares why would you even expect to be able to access the Media User Share? Note also, as has been mentioned, that 'cache' is not a User Share but a Disk Share. I asked that earlier => he already noted that what he meant was disk shares
February 29, 201610 yr Author I rebooted and it is now working as intended! Thank you so much everyone for your help, I am very impressed with this community and software!
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