March 29, 201610 yr R'uh R'oh; my peeps, aren't going to abandon me in the home s t r e t c h now....are they? Give em a chance... I haven't really been keeping up to date with this but I suspect they want to see this thread resolved as much as you. [emoji6]
March 29, 201610 yr Author R'uh R'oh; my peeps, aren't going to abandon me in the home s t r e t c h now....are they? Give em a chance... I haven't really been keeping up to date with this but I suspect they want to see this thread resolved as much as you. [emoji6] K
March 29, 201610 yr Author What is the current question? How do I go about...setting up this SSD, for Cache? You know...do I need to pre-clear, etc? Right now...I have it hooked up, and in my Unidentified Drives. Thx
March 29, 201610 yr I wouldn't preclear a SSD and especially if it's going to be a cache drive. To assign it just stop the array and assign it.... Assuming you're not setting up a pool of drives for your cache. Then I guess you'll need to copy anything you have on your existing cache drive over. For that I would use midnight commander via ssh. (Type mc)
March 29, 201610 yr Author I wouldn't preclear a SSD and especially if it's going to be a cache drive. To assign it just stop the array and assign it.... Assuming you're not setting up a pool of drives for your cache. Then I guess you'll need to copy anything you have on your existing cache drive over. For that I would use midnight commander via ssh. (Type mc) New to cache. So...just do it! Unmountable?
March 29, 201610 yr Author Does Array Operations offer to format it? OK; yes. Thanks. Doing that now. OK; all good, as far as Cache goes?
March 29, 201610 yr Author OK...so; now to do a FRESH install, of PLEX. I think I have this; but I want to confirm steps, if that's OK. I mean...the last thing I want to do, after all this; is screw something silly up. So...Step 1: - Enable my Docker - With a 240G Cache drive; suggest an image size? - And create the image, on the Cache disk (and is that path just /mnt/cache/?) YES?
March 29, 201610 yr - Enable my Docker - With a 240G Cache drive; suggest an image size? This is dependent on your cache drive size, more the amount of containers you want. My docker.img is 30GB. I have a lot of containers. (25 at last count) - And create the image, on the Cache disk (and is that path just /mnt/cache/?) /mnt/cache/docker.img will be fine.
March 29, 201610 yr One other thought, why did you choose btrfs instead of xfs as a format for your cache drive? i may be wrong but I think there have been issues with btrfs here and there. If you're running a cache pool then it needs to be btrfs, but for a single device XFS would be fine.
March 30, 201610 yr Author - Enable my Docker - With a 240G Cache drive; suggest an image size? This is dependent on your cache drive size, more the amount of containers you want. My docker.img is 30GB. I have a lot of containers. (25 at last count) - And create the image, on the Cache disk (and is that path just /mnt/cache/?) /mnt/cache/docker.img will be fine. I'm not anticipating, a lot of containers; but is there any down-side really...in going "too big" (like 30G)?
March 30, 201610 yr Author One other thought, why did you choose btrfs instead of xfs as a format for your cache drive? i may be wrong but I think there have been issues with btrfs here and there. If you're running a cache pool then it needs to be btrfs, but for a single device XFS would be fine. I didn't even see an option, honestly. Should I re-format...before moving forward?
March 30, 201610 yr One other thought, why did you choose btrfs instead of xfs as a format for your cache drive? i may be wrong but I think there have been issues with btrfs here and there. If you're running a cache pool then it needs to be btrfs, but for a single device XFS would be fine. I didn't even see an option, honestly. Should I re-format...before moving forward? Your screenshot here shows btrfs, so which one is it?!
March 30, 201610 yr Author One other thought, why did you choose btrfs instead of xfs as a format for your cache drive? i may be wrong but I think there have been issues with btrfs here and there. If you're running a cache pool then it needs to be btrfs, but for a single device XFS would be fine. I didn't even see an option, honestly. Should I re-format...before moving forward? Your screenshot here shows btrfs, so which one is it?! I re-formatted.
March 30, 201610 yr I re-formatted. Why ask the question after the fact then?! Anyways, there's no problem having "too big" a docker.img other than it uses more space.
March 30, 201610 yr Author OK...I have my Docker. Set-up, a Container...before PLEX? Considerations? Thx
March 30, 201610 yr You got Community Applications installed? And what version of unRAID you running?
March 30, 201610 yr Author You got Community Applications installed? And what version of unRAID you running?
March 30, 201610 yr Community Expert Update unRAID before doing anything else. Always try to stay current unless you know you have some good reason not to.
March 30, 201610 yr Update unRAID before doing anything else. Always try to stay current unless you know you have some good reason not to. Took the words right out of my mouth..
March 30, 201610 yr OK. Go ahead and get the next steps ready...lol I'm afraid I'm off to bed, so perhaps someone else can take the baton...
March 30, 201610 yr Community Expert After updating to the latest stable release of unRAID, you use Community Applications to choose the Plex docker you want. I recommend the one from linuxserver.io
March 30, 201610 yr Author After updating to the latest stable release of unRAID, you use Community Applications to choose the Plex docker you want. I recommend the one from linuxserver.io Do I need to set-up a Container first?
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