Hi

 

I have 3 data disks in my array as follows:

 

/disk1/MoviesHD

/disk2/MoviesHD

/disk3/TV

 

I set up two shares for MoviesHD and TV which both worked fine.  However I have now decided that I no longer want these two shares.

 

I have read that in order to delete them I first eed to empty all of the data out of them.  Now this is where I run into problems as both shares have manay GBs of data in them obivously originally stored under /disk1,2,3/MoviesHd or TV. 

 

Is there any way of removing the data from the shaes without removing the data from the original location?

 

Cheers

 

I set up two shares for MoviesHD and TV which both worked fine.  However I have now decided that I no longer want these two shares.

 

I have read that in order to delete them I first eed to empty all of the data out of them.  Now this is where I run into problems as both shares have manay GBs of data in them obivously originally stored under /disk1,2,3/MoviesHd or TV. 

 

Is there any way of removing the data from the shaes without removing the data from the original location?

Short answer...no.    The "share" is the original location, shared on the LAN.  If you remove the files, they are gone.

 

 

But, you can rename the share to an alternate name, or, you can hide the share (not export it) or you can move the files to an alternate sub-directory.

 

If, as an example, you had a "Movies" share, you could move the MoviesHD to a sub-directory with two commands like this:

mkdir /mnt/disk1/Movies

mv /mnt/disk1/MoviesHD /mnt/disk1/Movies/

(do this for each disk where the MoviesHD directory resides)

 

MoviesHD would then be a sub-directory of the Movies Share.

 

Where do you want those "manay GBs" of data to reside?  (which path?)

 

Joe L.

Hi Joe,

 

Thanks for the response!

 

I want the data to reside in their current locations being /mnt/disk1 or 2/MoviesHD and /mnt/disk3/TV.  I just wanted to get rid of both automatically generated shares as I no longer need them and am happy linking to the original locations from my XBMC.

Hi Joe,

 

Thanks for the response!

 

I want the data to reside in their current locations being /mnt/disk1 or 2/MoviesHD and /mnt/disk3/TV.  I just wanted to get rid of both automatically generated shares as I no longer need them and am happy linking to the original locations from my XBMC.

Then simply go into the Share settings for 'MoviesHD' and 'TV' and set them to "don't export"

Just turn off user shares completely?

 

Peter

 

I use XBMC and I normally just upload my files directly to

/mnt/disk1

/mnt/disk2

 

But both of those drives are a Share called Movies. Is there a particular reason you don't want the shares other than not wanting them?

 

The reason I ask is because I point my XBMC at \\tower\Movies and as long as I keep adding files and drives and the Movies share exist it will find them and play them perfectly without needing to keep adding new drives or additional mapping in XBMC.