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Best way to delete a large batch of files

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I have another question.  I'm deleting movies and music going from 20TB down to 8TB (4 drives and 1 parity).  Once I finish deleting the files, is there a way I can disable the parity drive so I can copy files from one drive to another?  I want to do it as fast a possible.  Then once I have all the files I need on the 4 drives, I would like to remove the remaining drives, then run a parity on the remaining data drives. What is the process for that?

  • Community Expert

I have another question.  I'm deleting movies and music going from 20TB down to 8TB (4 drives and 1 parity).  Once I finish deleting the files, is there a way I can disable the parity drive so I can copy files from one drive to another?  I want to do it as fast a possible.  Then once I have all the files I need on the 4 drives, I would like to remove the remaining drives, then run a parity on the remaining data drives. What is the process for that?

Better idea would be to turn on Turbo Write.

Ok it is working.  It turns a slight yellow color which is really hard to see so I ran a test and it did work.

 

Yeah, it's not the most vibrant of colours is it.....

Looks left at CHBMB's avatar, looks back. Yep, not vibrant at all.

 

I have no idea what you're talking about....  8)

Apparently you recently changed from glasses to contacts. Or are you just slightly sad? Winter doldrums perhaps? Or did the moody missus kick you out without a coat? Either way, digging the new look.  ;D
  • Author

So can I just turn on Turbo Write at any time and turn it off?  So once I am ready to copy, just turn it on and then once done turn it off?

 

I also noticed 9 of my data drives are reiserfs and one is xfs.  SHould I use this time to move data off, convert a drive to xfs, then move the data back on? 

  • Community Expert

So can I just turn on Turbo Write at any time and turn it off?  So once I am ready to copy, just turn it on and then once done turn it off?

yes

I also noticed 9 of my data drives are reiserfs and one is xfs.  SHould I use this time to move data off, convert a drive to xfs, then move the data back on?

Sounds good. Be sure to check out the last page or 2 of the sticky about converting, I think the advice has been cleaned up a bit.
  • Author

While deleting some folders I got a message indicating the folder could not be deleted "read only file system (30)".  I can see the permissions are "drwxrwxrwx".  I have no idea where that came from.  How do I get rid of the folder or change the permissions?

  • Community Expert

While deleting some folders I got a message indicating the folder could not be deleted "read only file system (30)".  I can see the permissions are "drwxrwxrwx".  I have no idea where that came from.  How do I get rid of the folder or change the permissions?

That suggests filesystem corruption. Post a diagnostic.
  • Author

How do I do that?  Do you mean just the attributes?

  • Author

# Attribute Name Flag Value Worst Threshold Type Updated Failed Raw Value

1 Raw read error rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always Never 0

3 Spin up time 0x0027 176 176 021 Pre-fail Always Never 4183

4 Start stop count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old age Always Never 874

5 Reallocated sector count 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always Never 0

7 Seek error rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old age Always Never 0

9 Power on hours 0x0032 082 081 000 Old age Always Never 13615 (1y, 6m, 18d, 7h)

10 Spin retry count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old age Always Never 0

11 Calibration retry count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old age Always Never 0

12 Power cycle count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old age Always Never 104

192 Power-off retract count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old age Always Never 51

193 Load cycle count 0x0032 199 199 000 Old age Always Never 3956

194 Temperature celsius 0x0022 120 108 000 Old age Always Never 27

196 Reallocated event count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old age Always Never 0

197 Current pending sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old age Always Never 0

198 Offline uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old age Offline Never 0

199 UDMA CRC error count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old age Always Never 0

200 Multi zone error rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old age Offline Never 0

  • Community Expert

Go to Tools - Diagnostics and post complete diagnostics zip.

  • Author

Ok ran a check

 

3 found corruptions can be fixed when running with --fix-fixable

 

I can fix that but what's odd is I was able to copy the files I couldn't delete to another drive no problem. 

  • Author

Are we sure it's file corruption? What's funny is I can play the movie no problem and copy it.  I tried to delete a few other items and I'm thinking I can't delete anything from the drive. Could there be another setting somewhere?

  • Community Expert

When the filesystem corruption was detected the disk was remounted readonly. The corruption may not have affected those files but since it was readonly you couldn't delete.

  • Author

Ahhh I see.  Ok will run the fix.

 

Thankful for experts like you! 

  • Author

Ok finished, received the following

 

finished

No corruptions found

There are on the filesystem:

Leaves 398527

Internal nodes 2421

Directories 926

Other files 1380

Data block pointers 403070586 (0 of them are zero)

Safe links 0

###########

reiserfsck finished at Wed Jan  4 14:20:41 2017

###########

bad_indirect_item: block 304257248: The item (1191 1198 0xf782b001 IND (1), len 4048, location 48 entry count 0, fsck need 0, format new) has the bad pointer (28) to the block (304257197), which is in tree already - zeroed

vpf-10630: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs. Will be fixed later.

vpf-10680: The file [1191 1198] has the wrong block count in the StatData (62240208) - corrected to (62240200)

 

I'm guessing I should now be able to start in normal mode and delete the files.

  • Author

That did the trick.  Deleting files as I type.

  • Author

So I have the Turbo Write on and copying files from one disk to another via MC and I'm getting a speed of 35MBps.  Seems slow.  I wonder if it's my MB/CPU combo?  With my older mATX MB and Dual Core CPU I think I recall getting somewhere around 75MBps.  I switched to be more energy efficient.

 

Asrock C2550D41 Motherboard

Intel Atom C2550 @ 2.4GHz CPU

  • Community Expert

So I have the Turbo Write on and copying files from one disk to another via MC and I'm getting a speed of 35MBps.  Seems slow.  I wonder if it's my MB/CPU combo?  With my older mATX MB and Dual Core CPU I think I recall getting somewhere around 75MBps.  I switched to be more energy efficient.

 

Asrock C2550D41 Motherboard

Intel Atom C2550 @ 2.4GHz CPU

Since you are currently on another thread talking about unassigning a disk, have you already unassigned one of the disks? If so then it is obviously going to be slower since reading/writing an emulated disk is going to be slower.
  • Author

No, haven't unassigned it yet.  Just moving a few more things around.

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