September 30, 201015 yr Hello all. I'm using 3 drives and the free version of unRaid. I have 2-1.5TB WD Green drives and 1-500GB WD drive, so 2TB of space available for storage. Everything has been working fine until this week. I was trying to rip a DVD to the server and it would quit about halfway through. It appears that unRAID is writing to the 500GB disc and it is almost full, while 900GB of the 1.5TB drive is free. Any ideas on what I need to do to fix this? Do you need more info?
September 30, 201015 yr Hello all. I'm using 3 drives and the free version of unRaid. I have 2-1.5TB WD Green drives and 1-500GB WD drive, so 2TB of space available for storage. Everything has been working fine until this week. I was trying to rip a DVD to the server and it would quit about halfway through. It appears that unRAID is writing to the 500GB disc and it is almost full, while 900GB of the 1.5TB drive is free. Any ideas on what I need to do to fix this? Do you need more info? Set the min-free variable on the share so it uses another drive when one is nearly full. You probably have it blank or zero. see this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7246.msg70292#msg70292 The value is in kilobytes, so set it to about 6 Gigabytes. 6000000000 (I think) Joe L.
September 30, 201015 yr Author Hello all. I'm using 3 drives and the free version of unRaid. I have 2-1.5TB WD Green drives and 1-500GB WD drive, so 2TB of space available for storage. Everything has been working fine until this week. I was trying to rip a DVD to the server and it would quit about halfway through. It appears that unRAID is writing to the 500GB disc and it is almost full, while 900GB of the 1.5TB drive is free. Any ideas on what I need to do to fix this? Do you need more info? Set the min-free variable on the share so it uses another drive when one is nearly full. You probably have it blank or zero. see this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7246.msg70292#msg70292 The value is in kilobytes, so set it to about 6 Gigabytes. 6000000000 (I think) Joe L. Thanks Joe! I figured it was something easy, but this is all new to me!
September 30, 201015 yr Problem is, the server has no way to know the eventual size of a file when you start to write it to the server. There is plenty of room for it initially, when it is only a meg or two in size. It is why the min-free setting is there.
September 30, 201015 yr Author Problem is, the server has no way to know the eventual size of a file when you start to write it to the server. There is plenty of room for it initially, when it is only a meg or two in size. It is why the min-free setting is there. That makes perfect sense. Windows only "sees" the 900GB free so it just tries to write it. It is the unRaid side that can't handle it without the parameters. Thanks again!
September 30, 201015 yr Problem is, the server has no way to know the eventual size of a file when you start to write it to the server. There is plenty of room for it initially, when it is only a meg or two in size. It is why the min-free setting is there. That makes perfect sense. Windows only "sees" the 900GB free so it just tries to write it. It is the unRaid side that can't handle it without the parameters. Thanks again! In the same way, when you eventually fill both drives, and have only 2 Gig free on each, don't try to write a 3Gig file. (Windows sees 4Gig free, but any single file must reside on a single file-system... so in that situation, max size file you can write is 2Gig)
October 2, 201015 yr Author OK, not working after all! I have a share called Movies and the limit is set at 6,000,000 so only really small movies should even attempt to write to it. I am trying to transfer a 4.26GB file and it is writing to Disk 1 which only has about 1.5GB of space available. Anything else I need to check? EDIT: Now it is back to working again. Perhaps i didn't have my split level high enough? I moved it to 10 just to try something and that may have been it.
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