May 17, 201016 yr I have a Share on disc9 name named Music and it's (suposed to be) exclusive to that disk. Somehow a Share named TV (which has exclude Disc9 like all others) has placed some files on it. On disc9 there are two top level folders named Music (correct) and TV (needs to be moved) that has 5 subfolders with files in them. Looks like about 230GB total. I have 2 HDs to install (a 2TB and a 1.5TB (just replaced parity)). Once installed can I simply copy the TV files to Disc 11 and the Share named TV will locate the files as if they were never moved? Also is tis the correct syntax to use? mv /mnt/disk9/TV /mnt/disk12 Project after this: rearranging discs.
May 17, 201016 yr If /mnt/disk12/TV does not already exist, your syntax will work. If /mnt/disk12/TV does currently exist, then you need to move the file/folders in it with something like mv /mnt/disk9/TV/* /mnt/disk12/TV/
May 17, 201016 yr Author If /mnt/disk12/TV does not already exist, your syntax will work. If /mnt/disk12/TV does currently exist, then you need to move the file/folders in it with something like mv /mnt/disk9/TV/* /mnt/disk12/TV/ Thanks Joe, disk12 (and disc13) is a precleared yet to be installed and is blank. The folder TV is on most (if not all) the other drives and corresponds to a Share named TV. So mv /mnt/disk9/TV /mnt/disk12 is correct for a blank disc and the Tower will automatically map the move to the Share TV?
May 17, 201016 yr If /mnt/disk12/TV does not already exist, your syntax will work. If /mnt/disk12/TV does currently exist, then you need to move the file/folders in it with something like mv /mnt/disk9/TV/* /mnt/disk12/TV/ Thanks Joe, disk12 (and disc13) is a precleared yet to be installed and is blank. The folder TV is on most (if not all) the other drives and corresponds to a Share named TV. So mv /mnt/disk9/TV /mnt/disk12 is correct for a blank disc and the Tower will automatically map the move to the Share TV? When you add disk12 to the array it will initially show in the display as un-formatted. You will then see a "Format" button on the web-management-console. When you then press the "Format" button the disk will be formatted. Initially it will have no directories or files on it. At that point in time you can use the command mv /mnt/disk9/TV /mnt/disk12 exactly as you described. Depending on the amount of data, it could take anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours to move the files. (most people report about 45 to 65 MB/s speeds in writing to the array. At 50MB/s it will take 20 seconds per Gigabyte. If you are transferring 1000 Gigabytes of files it would take 5 1/2 hours) Joe L.
May 19, 201016 yr Author Just started the move. I'm moving disk9/Music to disk13. iTunes is still playing so is it OK to use (just read and after 45 minutes it seems to do fine) the Share Music while the move is in process? Also the console doesn't give any indicator of moving or progress. I looked on my Mac and see files are being added to disc13 so it working. Is there any way to estimate the time, speed or progress? Just looking at how long it takes for each file (song) it's going to be a looong time. EDIT: I guess just looking at the folder on my Mac is the only indicator. It's not fast and looks to be about the speed of copying songs to my iPhone. So with 20,000 songs it may take at least a day. EDIT: Just a quick question...I noticed that files that have been "moved" to disk13 are still on disk9 also. Does it first make a copy the files and then delete the originals?
May 19, 201016 yr Just started the move. I'm moving disk9/Music to disk13. iTunes is still playing so is it OK to use the Share Music while the move is in process? Also the console doesn't give any indicator of moving or progress. I looked on my Mac and see files are being added to disc13 so it working. Is there any way to estimate the time, speed or progress? Just looking at how long it takes for each file (song) it's going to be a looong time. You can install unMENU and use the "Disk Performance" screen to track the I/O Or, you can download the utility it uses behind the scene and use it at the command line: Download from here: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz Install by typing installpkg bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz Run it by typing: bwm-ng -i disk -c 1 -I sdf,hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf,hdg,hdl,hdk,hda,sde (with the appropriate list of devices for your server. The list must be comma separated, but with no additional spaces between them as in my example) If you wish, you can use a command to create the list of assigned devices for you (I'd cut and paste the following line as it is complex to type) Type: devices=`/root/mdcmd status|strings|grep -i rdevname|cut -d"=" -f2|sed "s/$/,/"| tr -d "\n"|sed -e "s/,$//" -e "s/,,/,/"` followed by: bwm-ng -i disk -c 1 -I $devices At the command line, bwm-ng looks like this: [pre] bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help input: disk IO type: rate - iface Rx Tx Total ============================================================================== sde: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s sdf: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hde: 203.92 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 203.92 KB/s hdf: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdg: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdk: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdl: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hda: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdb: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdc: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdd: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ total: 203.92 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 203.92 KB/s [/pre] On the unMENU screen, it looks like this (I was doing a parity check, so all disks were active): How many Gigabytes of files are you moving? Joe L.
May 19, 201016 yr Author You can install unMENU and use the "Disk Performance" screen to track the I/O Or, you can download the utility it uses behind the scene and use it at the command line: Download from here: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz How many Gigabytes of files are you moving? Joe L. Thanks Joe, I have a little over 500GB in about 20,000 files/songs (Apple Lossless). I'm in no hurry since I can still read (use) the Music Share. I will download the utility for future but don't want to stop the process now that I'm well into it.
May 19, 201016 yr You can install unMENU and use the "Disk Performance" screen to track the I/O Or, you can download the utility it uses behind the scene and use it at the command line: Download from here: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz How many Gigabytes of files are you moving? Joe L. Thanks Joe, I have a little over 500GB in about 20,000 files/songs (Apple Lossless). I'm in no hurry since I can still read (use) the Music Share. I will download the utility for future but don't want to stop the process now that I'm well into it. You don't need to stop the currently executing "mv" process. You can open up a second telnet session and install the bwm-ng program from there, or, if using the system console, Alt-F1 through Alt-F6 allow you to switch between 6 virtual consoles. Normally, you log in on console 1, but you can easily switch back and forth to the others. Jus type Alt-F2, log in there, and proceed. When you want to go back to the first console, just type Alt-F1. No reboot is needed, the bwm-ng program is available as soon as it is installed. Joe L.
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