I have several shares "music 1", "music 2", "music 3" that hold music media.  Is there an easy way to make a single share called "music" that has these shares as sub tier folders without having to read and write the files over again?

If "music 1", "music 2" and "music 3" are on separate disks all you need to do is rename them all to "music". If they exist on the same disks then you will have to merge them first. That should be very quick if you do it on the server itself using, say Midnight Commander or Krusader because the files don't need to be physically moved.

 

For example, if you use MC and navigate to /mnt/disk1 you could move everything that's in folders "music 2" and "music 3" into "music 1" (which will be fast). Then delete the empty "music 2" and "music 3" folders and rename "music 1" to "music". Then repeat for /mnt/disk2, /mnt/disk3, etc. and also /mnt/cache if you have a cache pool.

 

EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood the question. Just use MC to navigate to /mnt/disk1 and create a folder called "music" then move "music 1", "music 2" and "music 3" into it, so that "/mnt/disk1/music 1" becomes "/mnt/disk1/music/music 1", etc. That will be fast. Repeat for each disk and for /mnt/cache.

 

Edited October 19, 20196 yr by John_M
I misunderstood the question