Ok, so I have a couple questions in regards to shares.  I currently have 5 drives with info on all of them but I haven't enabled shares.  My drives are set up as such:

 

Drive 1

-Movies

    -Individual movie folders

Drive 2

  -Music

    -Individual music folders

and on and on....But I'm running short on room on my Movie drive (it's a 2tb so upgrading isn't really an option), if I enable shares now, will it delete data? And am I correct in assuming that if I enable shares, I can have a "Movie" share and it would just spread my movie data across different drives?

or would it just make more sense to create a start a new "Movies" folder on another drive once Disk 1 fills up?

full answer: http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Manual#User_shares_2

 

short answers: No it will not delete you data. User shares basically "merge" the information contained in the Directory from all discs. So it would actually create the "Movie" directory on the second, third, etc discs as you have it outlined in the configuration (ie included/exclude discs) and thus you see all the files on all the discs under that one "shared directory"

 

When you write to the user share, it puts the files in according to how you have your "share Level" set (see above link)

 

That should be correct.  Hope that helps

You can do both. If you enable user shares than any top level disk directory becomes a share. You Movies directory will appear as a new share. You may need to stop/start the array or even reboot for it to begin working though.

 

Even after enabling user shares, you can still just create a new Movies directory on disk 2 and keep using it. It will automatically be combined with the disk1 Movies directory and appear as one big directory when you access the network location "Movies".

 

Now, if you want to copy files to this Movies share then I suggest you use a split level of 1 and the High Water allocation method. Also, add any disks you want to include or exclude.

 

Peter

 

 

 

thanks a lot guys!