November 11, 20169 yr Hello! I redid my unraid volume a few weeks ago. I reformatted some drives, changed some old ones for new. I also changed files system to xfs. Now I hav two problems: 1. I am experiencing problems with my cache drive. I have a folder called .Download on my cache drive. When I download new files to this drive, the files end up on Disk 4 in a folder with the name .Download. 2 Also no other data lands on this disk, which make me belive that the disk 4 is not included in the unraid disk volume anymore. I have looked through Global Share Settings and the Shares settings. Nothing that I see there says anything about excluding Disk 4. What settings have I not found? What other than the Shares settings and Global Share Settings are there to look for? Kind Regards Jens
November 11, 20169 yr Community Expert All disk SMART looks OK. It looks like you don't have a disk3 assigned. Is this correct? There is also this in your syslog Nov 8 07:19:05 UNRAID root: container "CrashPlan" hostpath "/mnt/disks" does not exist This would seem to imply you have your CrashPlan docker configured to use an Unassigned Device, but you don't have any. In your diagnostics I don't see any settings for a .Download share. Is there some reason you want to do this as a linux hidden folder (starting with a .)? It is not necessary to do it this way if all you are trying to accomplish is keeping it from being seen over the network or keep it from being picked up by the mover. There are better and more standard ways to accomplish both of these things, and using linux hidden folders can unnecessarily complicate troubleshooting. Lots of file errors related to .Download on disk4. You should check filesystem.
November 11, 20169 yr Author Hello! I have no disk 3 as I removed it a few weeks ago. Is it possible to re-arrange disk 4 to slot 3 and disk 5 to slot 4 without rebuilding parity? I have removed the mapping for the crashplan container. I dont know what it was for, probably a misconfiguration. I have done the check disk on disk 4 with the array in maintenance mode. But no errors on disk 4. I have removed the .Download folder and all other folders with a . in the beginning. I have made the donwload share to an ordinary share with the setting that it should be contained on the cache drive. I attach another diagnostis file if you could take a look at it. No idea why my disk 4 is empty? Thanks! /Jens unraid-diagnostics-20161111-2204.zip
November 11, 20169 yr Community Expert Can I assume you rebuilt parity when you removed disk3? Since you only have one parity it will be valid if you rearrange the disks. Not sure if unRAID will want to rebuild parity or not though. Seems like there were some versions recently that would want to when you did this. In any case there should be a checkbox to make it not rebuild parity. If you aren't writing directly to disk4, but instead to user share(s) that you believe should include disk4, then it might be that it just hasn't needed to write that disk yet. If you go to the settings page for one of your user shares and turn on help, it will explain each of the settings. The settings that affect this are split level, allocation method, and minimum free. Split level has precedence, then I think minimum free. It can keep writing files to the same disk if they belong to the same folder, depending on the split level depth.
November 11, 20169 yr Community Expert I have no disk 3 as I removed it a few weeks ago. Is it possible to re-arrange disk 4 to slot 3 and disk 5 to slot 4 without rebuilding parity? Yes, but with v6.2 only by doing a new config and trusting parity.
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