I did a fresh install on new UnRaid Server and I'm confused on how the new setup works.

 

I hoping someone could explain to me why we can no longer keep VM's and dockers on the cache drives alone and just use my data drives for media storage.

 

With the fresh install I see these new shares that popped up but not under a cache share but a user share. 

 

 

I believe these user shares are setup as cache-only (not using your media drives). You can check this by going to the shares tab and clicking on the new shares.

You can, go into the share settings and select cache only.

 

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Starting with unRAID 6.2 a number of required folders are automatically created upon system start, if they are not already existing.

 

The auto creation sets the correct reference for each of these folders.

 

For those folders which should reside on the cache drive, but no cache drive is present in the system, the "Use cache disk" setting is set to "prefer". This means the folder is first created on one of the data disks, but will be moved to the cache disk as soon as it is available in the system.

 

In short, there is no need for you to make any changes on the auto-created folders.

 

How long before the array moves it all to cache.

 

Right now its doing a parity check.

How long before the array moves it all to cache.

 

Right now its doing a parity check.

 

It moves files as soon as mover kicks in, so depending on the schedule of mover... (default is daily at 03:40am)

 

Shares still appear to be on a data drive not a cache drive.

 

Did you run mover ?

 

When you click on compute, it will show on which disk(s) content is found for that share (see my example).

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yes

 

I updated my previous answer, have a look!

I guess it is not moved because there is no content (yet) in appdata (I presume you have a Cache disk now)

I had a cache disk from the start of the new install.

Do you have a parity drive? The yellow triangle beside each share means some of the share is not protected. If all of the share is on the parity array then these should be green.

 

Your sig says

Drives: 1x8tb Parity, 1X8tb Data, 4X4TB Cache

Is that still your (somewhat unusual) setup?

I had a cache disk from the start of the new install.

 

Hmm, that is strange. It should have created the folder on your cache disk (if it was not existing before).

 

Can you show your current settings of share appdata?

 

Might as well go the rest of the way and give us a screenshot of your 4 x 4TB cache.

Do you have a parity drive? The yellow triangle beside each share means some of the share is not protected. If all of the share is on the parity array then these should be green.

 

Your sig says

Drives: 1x8tb Parity, 1X8tb Data, 4X4TB Cache

Is that still your (somewhat unusual) setup?

 

Actually it's  3x4tb for cache.  I got new drives on the way for data. 

I had a cache disk from the start of the new install.

 

Hmm, that is strange. It should have created the folder on your cache disk (if it was not existing before).

 

Can you show your current settings of share appdata?

 

Since setting is "Cache only" it is the reason why nothing will be moved (if any content), but it is puzzling why the setting isn't "Prefer" and the share is on disk1, unless the share "appdata" already existed on disk1 before...

 

I had a cache disk from the start of the new install.

 

Hmm, that is strange. It should have created the folder on your cache disk (if it was not existing before).

 

Can you show your current settings of share appdata?

 

Since setting is "Cache only" it is the reason why nothing will be moved (if any content), but it is puzzling why the setting isn't "Prefer" and the share is on disk1, unless the share "appdata" already existed on disk1 before...

 

It was prefer but I changed to cache only.

I had a cache disk from the start of the new install.

 

Hmm, that is strange. It should have created the folder on your cache disk (if it was not existing before).

 

Can you show your current settings of share appdata?

 

Since setting is "Cache only" it is the reason why nothing will be moved (if any content), but it is puzzling why the setting isn't "Prefer" and the share is on disk1, unless the share "appdata" already existed on disk1 before...

 

It was prefer but I changed to cache only.

 

Ok, and did you start the mover after you made the change?

 

yes

yes

 

ok, try this...

 

Change setting back to "prefer" and start mover.

 

That worked except for the system folder.

 

That worked except for the system folder.

 

Great.

 

That is expected. System folder resides on a data share.