Mover not overwriting partial files (solved)

[bobobeastie]

I googled this situation and didn't see anything, my apologies if I am posting wrong.  I noticed a couple of days ago that mover was full and wouldn't empty, then found xfs errors which I cant find right now to quote.  Ran a parity check, then mover, which didn't work, but my log file filled up.  Today, I rebooted, log file looks pretty good, no errors, not full, it looks like I am just getting this type of message when trying to run mover:

 

Jun 4 17:09:36 Tower move: move_object: /mnt/cache/3D-Movies/x/x.mkv File exists 

 

Does mover not overwrite partial files?  I think there were a couple of days where files were half moved and now mover wont overwrite the full versions from the cache drive to the partial versions on the array.  I recently replaced sdf with a new drive after the old one may have been going bad, mover issues occurred after.  I tried to find a test file to delete on the drive using krusader to see if mover would work on the file, but I can't find individual drives in krusader.

 

What should I do?  Thanks.

tower-diagnostics-20180604-1749.zip

[JorgeB]

8 hours ago, bobobeastie said:

Does mover not overwrite partial files?

No, you'll need to delete them.

[bobobeastie]

4 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

No, you'll need to delete them.

I was going to try to delete a single file to see if that worked but could not figure out how to delete the array version of the file. i couldn't find the right directory in krusader.

[JorgeB]

use

/mnt/diskX or /mnt/user0

not

/mnt/user

[bobobeastie]

mnt looks empty in krusader.  I tried tools->root mode krusader, and the first time it took my password but still didn't show any contents.  After restarting krusader, It wont accept my root password.  I guess I can offload the files and then add them back, but it would be nice to have a gui method on the unraid server to accomplish this.

[JonathanM]

31 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

use

/mnt/diskX or /mnt/user0

not

/mnt/user

Which may mean adding or modifying an entry in the krusader docker config.

 

Be careful, and don't move, copy, or delete files until you understand how user shares work. The default of only mounting /mnt/user mostly protects you from accidentally nuking stuff, changing that introduces risk if you don't know what you are doing.

[JonathanM]

1 minute ago, bobobeastie said:

mnt looks empty in krusader.

 

That's because it is. By default /mnt inside of krusader isn't mapped to unraid, it only exists inside the krusader container.

 

You need to educate yourself on docker mappings and user shares before you start modifying things, otherwise you stand a good chance of deleting something you didn't mean to.

[bobobeastie]

I'm open to alternate solutions, this must happen at times to others.  I just tried to find the dir from the unraid web gui terminal and can't find my way around.  I'm sure that's just as dangerous.

[JorgeB]

You can use midnight commander (mc on the console), then browse to /mnt/diskX or /mnt/user0

[JonathanM]

3 minutes ago, bobobeastie said:

I'm open to alternate solutions, this must happen at times to others.  I just tried to find the dir from the unraid web gui terminal and can't find my way around.  I'm sure that's just as dangerous.

 

13 hours ago, bobobeastie said:

I can't find individual drives in krusader.

You can temporarily enable disk shares, and poke around the individual disks over the network. Just be sure to keep all activity segregated, don't copy stuff from your normal shares to the disk shares or vice versa.

[JonathanM]

@bobobeastie, I just had another thought. If it's only a handful of files effected, try renaming the bad ones, and restart unraid. Just change the name from movie.mkv to badmovie.mkv or something.

[bobobeastie]

4 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

You can use midnight commander (mc on the console), then browse to /mnt/diskX or /mnt/user0

That worked, thank you very much.

[bobobeastie]

Thank you jonathanm, I was able to figure out how to use midnight commander after some googling.  I tested first on a file I didn't mind re-creating, and after deleting that on the disk, mover was able to move from cache to my share.  Then I did everything else.  It's good to have different options though.