I have 4 disks in unRaid as storage. I have set movies to allocate via high-water, excluding one of the disks.

 

Now I noticed that unraid has created folders all over the other three disks. I cannot see the folder size in windows to determine which folders contain the movies and which contains the meta data, pictures, and etc. I'm manually moving things to fix this up. Is there a better way to do it? I want unraid to keep all movies in a hdd and when the hdd is full, start using another one. Should I have used Fill-Up allocation instead?

 

EDIT:

 

I have reorganized the disks manually. Right now the movies are split across disk 1 and 4. Most movie files are stored in disk 1, with disk 4 storing their meta and cover art, and also some "full movie folders". How can I view the folder size?

Yes, use Fill-Up allocation method.

 

If you're doing all this on the Linux console or via Telnet/Putty, then you can use "du -s -B 1M directory". That will show the total directory size in 1 Meg units. Feel free to use 1G or 1K for gigs or kbyte units.

 

If you want to see how the drives themselves are allocated, use "df".

I just noticed that windows 7 does not show folder size 

 

I'm not experienced in linux commands, here's what I did:

 

I've telnet to tower

 

at

 

root@Tower:~#

 

what do I type to access disk 4 and disk 1?

 

I have tried

 

du -s -B 1M /dev/md4 and it shows 0

You can get Windows 7 to show folder sizes, it takes a bit more work such as right click, select properties.

 

You were close, instead of /dev/md4, use /mnt/disk#. In Linux try the following:

 

df

 

du -s -B 1M /mnt/disk1/
du -s -B 1M /mnt/disk4/

 

If your top shares are Movies, and you have Serenity, it would be:

 

du -s -B 1M /mnt/disk1/Movies/Serenity

 

It's not a feasible option to check windows folder size by doing right click. There are over 200 folders that I need to check There are some apps that could show folder size but this one that I downloaded doesn't show folder size over network drive unless I pay for the pro version.

 

EDIT: I think there is a small misunderstand here. What I'm trying to do is:

 

Folders/size:

 

1/10 gb

2/400 mb

3/20 mb

4/4 gb

5/10 gb

6/1 mb

7/10 mb

8/1 gb

9/20 gb

10/1 mb

 

As oppose to having to check the folders one by one. My goal is to determine which of the duplicated folders are smaller in size. That way I can just cut those folders out and combine them with where the movies reside.

 

EDIT2:

found a tool that will do it: windirstat portable.