6.8.3: Appdata split across Disk 1 and Cache

[JohnDS]

Hello,

 

I'm about a week into learning Unraid and so far so good, I'm really loving it.  I installed the "Fix Common Problems" plugin and it alerted me to something that I don't want to dive into without a bit of guidance.

 

 

I believe what happened here is that I installed a few dockers before I realized the importance of having cache drives so now the appdata is split between Disk 1 and Cache.   Using Dolphin I can see that there are indeed appdata directories and subdirectories on both.  Is this simply a matter of merging the contents of the subdirectories?

 

 

Thanks,

 

John

 

[trurl]

Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics ZIP file to your NEXT post.

[itimpi]

The easiest way to solve this is to:

• disable the docker and VMs services under Settings
• set the appdata and system share to Use Cache = prefer if they are not already set to that.
• start the mover from the Main tab.   This will move files that should be on the cache to optimise performance from array to cache
• when mover finishes you can re-enable the docker and VMs services.

[JohnDS]

24 minutes ago, trurl said:

Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics ZIP file to your NEXT post.

Working on this right now.   It's taking a VERY long time, not sure how long is too long.  I started it shortly after you replied.

[JohnDS]

22 minutes ago, itimpi said:

The easiest way to solve this is to:

• disable the docker and VMs services under Settings
• set the appdata and system share to Use Cache = prefer if they are not already set to that.
• start the mover from the Main tab.   This will move files that should be on the cache to optimise performance from array to cache
• when mover finishes you can re-enable the docker and VMs services.

I am pretty sure I did this when I set up the Cache but perhaps it was for something else.  The first few days setting this up was lots of reading and long late night hours trying to absorb it all.  I don't remember everything I did.  I'll post the requested log file once I have it.

[JohnDS]

18 minutes ago, JohnDS said:

I am pretty sure I did this when I set up the Cache but perhaps it was for something else.  The first few days setting this up was lots of reading and long late night hours trying to absorb it all.  I don't remember everything I did.  I'll post the requested log file once I have it.

Followed your steps here and the appsdata is all on the cache now.  Thanks!  I definitely remember using the "mover" when I was first setting things up but can't recall what or why.    After 40 minutes I never did get a prompt to save the .zip file for the log.  I figured that was enough time for an 8 core processor to collect some log files.

[trurl]

1 hour ago, JohnDS said:

never did get a prompt to save the .zip file

How much RAM do you have?

[JohnDS]

6 minutes ago, trurl said:

How much RAM do you have?

16gb.  I tried it again later after restarting docker and it worked perfectly in about 1 second.  Not sure what was going on the first couple of times.

schlajo-nas-diagnostics-20200512-1053.zip

[trurl]

Your system share still has files on disk1. Did you actually disable the docker and VM services in Settings?

[JohnDS]

4 minutes ago, trurl said:

Your system share still has files on disk1. Did you actually disable the docker and VM services in Settings?

I did disable Docker services but, I didn't disable VM services because I don't have any installed.  I see now that there is an option to disable VM services in spite of that.   I'll disable both and initiate the mover again.  Thank you for catching that.

[JohnDS]

12 minutes ago, trurl said:

Your system share still has files on disk1. Did you actually disable the docker and VM services in Settings?

Done and fixed!  Thank you both very much for your help.  I'm really enjoying Unraid!