I wanted to change the files system on one of my disks to XFS, so I took all the data from disk1 and moved it directly to disk2.

 

Thinking about it now, am I going to have issues with user shares?  For instance, I moved all my movies from /mnt/disk1/movies to /mnt/disk2/movies rather than through /mnt/user/movies as they are normally allocated.  Are they still going to be reachable through usershares, or do I need to take all the data from disk2 and process through data shares?

 

 

I guess the question is, if you put something into a folder directly on a drive, is it still accessible through a share?

I guess the question is, if you put something into a folder directly on a drive, is it still accessible through a share?

yes

You don't need to do anything, unless you are including/excluding disks for some share(s), in that case you have to update settings to reflect new layout.

You don't need to do anything, unless you are including/excluding disks for some share(s), in that case you have to update settings to reflect new layout.

That only affects where transferring files into a share places them.  Not whether they show up or not when reading a share

You don't need to do anything, unless you are including/excluding disks for some share(s), in that case you have to update settings to reflect new layout.

That only affects where transferring files into a share places them.  Not whether they show up or not when reading a share

 

I meant that if for example he had a share using only disk1, and since now disk1 is disk2 and he wants to keep using the same disk for that share settings have to be updated, but you're right that all existing files are always accessible.