Hi I'm fairly new to Unraid (about a week) and something has been bothering me about both my first version 6.3.2 and current 6.3.3.

 

if a share has data on it its not removable. with a Mac all the files containing fork data and other meta data is copied and only usuable by a Mac.  these files dont consume a particularly large amount of data, but with them its not very easy to remove the share.

I had a time machine share that kept failing and restarting..using SSH and WinSCP on both the windows machine and mac i could see the sparsebundle file being created and was able to delete that but the .AppleDB folder with the ".fusion_hidden" files wont delete to save my sole!.


help please! anyone i have tried with ssh and winscp using root user.

 

i found a work around....I used WinSCP to navigate each of the disks (1-6) and any that contained my Timemachine share I deleted. refreshed the Unraid Gui and the share is gone now.....wish they could just add a delete /confirm delete (when data is contained) option that trumped workarounds like this

5 minutes ago, Can0nfan said:

wish they could just add a delete /confirm delete (when data is contained) option that trumped workarounds like this

I seriously doubt that Tom would even consider a quick and easy way to delete user data from the webGUI. WAY too easy to accidentally nuke valuable data with no easy way to undelete.

16 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

I seriously doubt that Tom would even consider a quick and easy way to delete user data from the webGUI. WAY too easy to accidentally nuke valuable data with no easy way to undelete.

why not just needs a safe guard or two.

make sure share is not being exported and no users are assigned access. a quick liability script that pops up before you confirm it...I just came from using a Drobo 5N. to delete a share on that you have to remove all users from having access, then put a check box next to share to delete and clicked ok and still had to type "ERASE" to confirm you indeed were erasing a share.