August 24, 201015 yr Though the new unraid web interface is certainly cleaner, is there a way to get the detailed free disk space that we saw in the old interface? I used that detailed space to maximally fill the disk.
August 24, 201015 yr Though the new unraid web interface is certainly cleaner, is there a way to get the detailed free disk space that we saw in the old interface? I used that detailed space to maximally fill the disk. It will either be an option or the community will add it in via a plugin. On a side note, you should probably be leave some free space on your drives. Typically I leave about 10GB free on all of mine.
August 24, 201015 yr On a side note, you should probably be leave some free space on your drives. Typically I leave about 10GB free on all of mine. That is mentioned from time to time - but why?
August 24, 201015 yr I write to disk shares only and leave as little as 5MB (not GB) on each drive. They're all data drives and there's no way to defrag them, so there's no reason to leave free space on them. Or is there? The OS drive should have space left on it -- in unRAID's case, that's the USB Flash drive.
August 25, 201015 yr On a side note, you should probably be leave some free space on your drives. Typically I leave about 10GB free on all of mine. That is mentioned from time to time - but why? Since ReiserFS is a journaled file system, it is able to replay journaled events after some catastrophe (such as a sudden power loss). This can help recover corrupted data. However, there has to be some free space on the disk for this to work. Or something like that. I honestly don't know all the technical details, but that's the gist of it. The general rule of thumb is that you should have as much free disk space as the largest individual file on the disk. So if you store 4.7 GB DVD iso's, then you should have about 5 GBs of free space. If you store 60 GB BluRay iso's, then you should have about 60 GBs of free space. I personally keep around 15 GBs of free space on each disk because my largest files are ~15 GB BluRay encodes.
August 25, 201015 yr Crap, i lost this thread in my bookmarks and forgot to reply. What Rajahal said is correct, and what i was going to point out. Like him i have some DVD .iso files that are almost 8GB in size and I keep about that much in free space open on a drive just in case.
August 25, 201015 yr Thanks for the explanation guys - I'll restructure my storage and strategies accordingly.
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