User mnt vs disk mnt

[sannitig]

Hi guys,

 

I've been using unRAID for a while now but had it down for two years after we moved. Just recently brought it back up and I'm copying a ton of stuff to it lately via FTP and sometimes via windows network share.

 

One thing I'm confused about is when I am copying via FTP - I see my disks (1/2/3) and a "user" folder -  should I be copying directly to disks or should I be copying to the "User".

 

I have 4 disks total. Media share is spread across disk 1/2/3, pictures share is only on disk 1. How does the User folder come into play here

 

Thanks!

[itimpi]

/mnt/diskX represent the physical disks.

 

/mnt/user is another view of the same data.   It represents User Shares.   A User Share is simply the aggregate of all top level folders on all disks that share that name.

[Frank1940]

Please be aware that you should never copy from a disk share ( /mnt/diskX ) to a user share ( /mnt/user/SHARE_NAME ) or vise versa.  Doing so will (eventually) cause data loss!!!

[sannitig]

Thanks - I will simply use /mnt/user/SHARE_NAME from now on and let the OS figure out what disk it feels like choosing.

 

And thanks for letting me know to never copy from DISK to user share. I think I have already done this a few times but will avoid it from now on.