New unRaid 6.1.9 user here, upgraded from 4.7.  I recently followed the directions here:

 

https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Replacing_Multiple_Data_Drives_with_a_Single_Larger_Drive

 

to replace 4 old 1TB drives with 1 new 4tb drive.  The rsync scripts seemed to work just find, all the data on the 4 old drives is now on the new drive.  I then used New Config to remove the old drives and reassigned the new drive to disk 1 ( old drives were disk 1-4, previously).  Started everything back up, and rebuilt parity which ran fine. 

 

However, I've gone from having 5 user shares ( documents, movies, series, photos and music ) to now having those 5 listed in the user shares under the Shares tab, plus shares for disk1, disk2, disk3 and disk4.  Additionally, if I use file explorer to open up shared drives shortcut, I now see shares for every disk in the machine ( 8 total ) plus all of the shared folders I set up.

 

Not really sure how to resolve this issue.  I know I screwed up something, but I don't know how.  Any help is appreciated. 

 

 

 

Settings - Global Share Settings. Turn on Help

It would appear to me that you copied the contents of each of your drives to folders named disk1,2,3,4 on the root of your new drive.

 

If it were me, I'd turn OFF user shares temporarily, and turn ON disk shares. Navigate to the new disk, and see what folders exist on the root of the drive. If you see folders named diskX, move the contents back out to the root of the disk, and delete the empty diskX folder when you are done.

 

If you ignore the part about turning off user shares while you work with this, you stand a good chance of accidentally deleting your data if you try to move it around if you aren't familiar with how user shares work.

It would appear to me that you copied the contents of each of your drives to folders named disk1,2,3,4 on the root of your new drive.

 

If it were me, I'd turn OFF user shares temporarily, and turn ON disk shares. Navigate to the new disk, and see what folders exist on the root of the drive. If you see folders named diskX, move the contents back out to the root of the disk, and delete the empty diskX folder when you are done.

 

If you ignore the part about turning off user shares while you work with this, you stand a good chance of accidentally deleting your data if you try to move it around if you aren't familiar with how user shares work.

 

Looks like what you described is exactly what happened.  So what is the best method for moving the contents back out to the root of the disk?

Never mind, figured that out.  Everything looks perfect again.  Still not sure what I did wrong though, followed the directions in that document exactly, or at least I think I did.  I would like to consolidate 4 more old 1TB drives again so I have more space for added capacity, but not sure I want to make that mistake again.  Thanks a bunch for the help though, that was much appreciated.