Hello,

 

I don't need cache drive.

I'd like to move data that are present on the cache drive to array?

How can I do that?

 

thanks

What type of data do you have on your cache drive?  And how are your user shares set up?

 

Edit, better to know current configuration than give advice first.

Generally the answer is to go into your User Share configurations and change use cache from Only or Prefer to Yes, and then run mover.  But it may be worth talking about a little more before you do that and you can supply more details.

Edited April 5, 20179 yr by tdallen

To clarify, if you have data on your cache drive you either have the Use Cache configuration setting for your user shares set to Only or Prefer  (or Yes and Mover isn't working for some reason).  The solution is probably to change the settings to Yes, run mover, verify that the files have moved, and then change the setting to No going forward.  But it would help to know how you have things setup now.

.img, some docker apps, sabnzbd..

I desactivated cache disk use on each disk.

Follow the first 6 steps of this procedure:

 

 

Please note, though, that you may not be happy running all that from your array.  The cache drive is the default "application drive" in unRAID for a reason.  Everything is going to run more slowly due to slower writes and both data and parity disks will be spun up.

Thanks so much guys !!

I followed the procedure, and set all my shares to "prefer" using cache drive.

But something goes wrong : array is writing to the cache drive. It should be inverse. I hope that cache drive writes data to the array, but cache is full now.

I don't understand.

What should I do?

 

Thanks,

Using a setting of 'Prefer' is an instruction to move as much as will fit of a shares contents from the data disks to the cache drive.   If you want files to be moved from the cache to the data disks you need to have it set to 'Yes'.

 

turning on the Help gives a description of what the various settings do.

Edited April 5, 20179 yr by itimpi

8 minutes ago, neuk34 said:

Thanks so much guys !!

I followed the procedure, and set all my shares to "prefer" using cache drive.

But something goes wrong : array is writing to the cache drive. It should be inverse. I hope that cache drive writes data to the array, but cache is full now.

I don't understand.

What should I do?

 

Thanks,

 

I told you the follow the first 6 steps only, the rest is to replace the cache.

OK, " When the mover finishes check that your cache is empty "

 

a .img files (from VM manager) remains on the cache drive.It doesn't switch to the array.

How can I move it?

 

Thanks

Either it was in use or it's in the root of your cache and not part of any share.

 

Actually, the file is not in use, and is a part of share.

My objective is to move it in the array.

I join 2 screen capture.

Thanks

Either VM was on or not enough space on the array (may be due to how the min free space is configured for that share).

 

Run the mover and post the diagnostics after.

You're right, maybe not eough space.

I'm going to add a new hard drive.

Thanks

The vdisk is 1.1TB, since unRAID can't stripe data you need to have that space available in a single disk, you'll also need to configure that share to include only the new disk or set a minimum free space above 1.1TB, or else it will try to copy it to the disks above.

On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2017 at 11:04 AM, tdallen said:

Please note, though, that you may not be happy running all that from your array.  The cache drive is the default "application drive" in unRAID for a reason.  Everything is going to run more slowly due to slower writes and both data and parity disks will be spun up.

I'm in agreement with tdallen that you may not be happy with performance.

 

Can I ask why you want to dump your cache? Are you running out of drive space? If so it may be a better option to increase drive size as needed.