So after I was unable to fix my shares missing I decided that since my setup was a few years old and maybe it was something that kinda just transferred from random updates I would start all over clean. 

 

Took a week to back up all my data. 

 

Now I have a fresh setup shares are working again, formatted all drives except parity as it doesn't give an option, so it did parity check, now all my drives have exactly 10% of space used there are no files, is this just formatting? I was pretty sure drives I had with nothing before said 0, maybe it's a change? Or did it somehow rebuild data from parity and it's wasting space on stuff that isn't there.

Edited December 22, 20178 yr by tlieaxu

There is something wrong.   Although a freshly formatted drive will have some space used it should be something like 1% rather than the 10% you mention. 

yes, I figured something did not make any sense I am thinking the parity process used up data on each drive somehow but there is no data anywhere on the disks, even from the command line interface. Is there a quick way to just clear them off again but make sure the parity drive doesn't rebuild again lol.

Parity does not work that way.    There can be no way that parity can put back SATA on the drives in the way you think might be happening.   Not sure what to suggest to rectify the problem though.

I will try to format the drives again and see if it works itself out.

seems to be fine now