April 21, 20197 yr 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!
April 21, 20197 yr Community Expert /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. Edited April 21, 20197 yr by itimpi
April 21, 20197 yr Community Expert 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!!! Edited April 21, 20197 yr by Frank1940
April 22, 20197 yr Author 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.
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