4.5.6

 

I added a new 2TB drive to the array because I was running out of space, just like the times before, and let it go through the pre-clear, formatting, and whatever else. When I look at the main screen, I see all 4 drives spun up, good temps, etc ... with drive 4 (the new one) showing:

 

size = 1,953,514,552

free = 1,953,422,088

 

Looking at the drive I have verified nothing has been written to it (ie: no movies, music, etc) so it's still as empty as the day I installed it. Using the syslog feature of unmenu, I see it showing up in inventory as well:

 

Nov 14 21:11:20 Media emhttp: Device inventory:

Nov 14 21:11:20 Media emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 host1 (sda) WDC_WD20EADS-00S2B0_WD-WCAVY1278217

Nov 14 21:11:20 Media emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-1:0:0:0 host2 (sdb) Hitachi_HDS722020ALA330_JK1130YAHAPV9T

Nov 14 21:11:20 Media emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-2:0:0:0 host3 (sdc) WDC_WD20EADS-00R6B0_WD-WCAVY0245491

Nov 14 21:11:20 Media emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-3:0:0:0 host4 (sdd) WDC_WD20EADS-00S2B0_WD-WCAVY1197663

Nov 14 21:11:20 Media emhttp: pci-0000:00:14.1-ide-1:0 ide1 (hdc) WDC_WD2001FASS-00U0B0_WD-WMAUR0273810

 

I have a user share called "Movies" and when I try to move a movie from my laptop to the Movies share, it tells me there is no space. Clearly the new drive should have provided nearly 2TB of free space, but for some reason it doesn't

 

I tried putting in a cache drive and I could easily write to that whenever copying movies to the Movies share, but then they are stuck on the cache drive because unraid doesn't seem to be able to utilize that newly added 2TB of space.

 

I never encountered this before when adding the other drives. Any ideas what I've missed?

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

Hmm, not sure if this makes sense, but alas - it solved the problem. I had to manually add the /Movies directory to the new drive before I could write to that share. For some reason I thought unraid would create directories as needed, but apparently not (at least not on mine).

 

Chris

 

We don't know how you've defined your user-share for Movies.

 

Perhaps you'll share your settings?

 

Perhaps you've set something to have the array only use specific drives for Movies?  Or, perhaps you have the split-level setting set to where you must create the directory before unRAID will use it.

 

Or, it could be something else...

 

Joe L.

 

I agree with Joe, sounds like a share setting issue but we can't help without the share settings.

 

Split Level set to 0?

Allocation set to Fill-up with no free space set? (hint, just use high water).

 

Peter

Sounds like the set up that i have for my share with split lvl 0

 

 

I have to manually created the folder in the disk in order to get the files copied in the new disk.

 

 

Sounds like the set up that i have for my share with split lvl 0

 

 

I have to manually created the folder in the disk in order to get the files copied in the new disk.

 

 

Split level of 0 is exactly that.  It indicates you desire to manually create any directories. unRAID will NOT create any on its own.