Krusader is failing to copy files from one share to another (/mnt/user/downloads/  to  /mnt/user/media/) with the following error: 

 

There is not enough space on the disk... (see screenshot for more details)

 

I get a similar failure using Windows file explorer. 

 

Taking a look a the file system I noticed that the "shows" sub directory in the /mnt/user/media/ share only points to disk2 which is 100% full.

 

Why is this?

 

Shouldn't sub directory /mnt/user/media/shows/ be present on all the same disk as other sub directories under  /mnt/user/media/ such as /mnt/user/media/movies/ ?

 

Might this be a bug or more likely something that I've failed to configure correctly? 

 

I've got plenty of space on the array, disk2 thru disk5 are used for my media. 

 

Thank you in advance for any help that your able to offer. 

root@unraid:~# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs          7.3G  723M  6.6G  10% /
tmpfs            32M  568K   32M   2% /run
devtmpfs        7.3G     0  7.3G   0% /dev
tmpfs           7.4G     0  7.4G   0% /dev/shm
cgroup_root     8.0M     0  8.0M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           128M  452K  128M   1% /var/log
/dev/sda1        30G  468M   29G   2% /boot
/dev/loop0      9.2M  9.2M     0 100% /lib/modules
/dev/loop1      7.3M  7.3M     0 100% /lib/firmware
tmpfs           1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /mnt/disks
/dev/md1        3.7T  800G  2.9T  22% /mnt/disk1
/dev/md2        3.7T  3.7T  939M 100% /mnt/disk2
/dev/md3        932G  103G  829G  12% /mnt/disk3
/dev/md4        932G  983M  931G   1% /mnt/disk4
/dev/sde1       112G   19G   93G  17% /mnt/cache
shfs             13T  4.7T  8.2T  37% /mnt/user0
shfs             13T  4.7T  8.2T  37% /mnt/user
/dev/loop2       20G  8.0G   12G  41% /var/lib/docker
/dev/loop3      1.0G   17M  905M   2% /etc/libvirt
/dev/md5        3.7T  113G  3.6T   4% /mnt/disk5
shm              64M     0   64M   0% /var/lib/docker/containers/64ebb28d73ef3a670a2f4961b99c745bd8475c5190fbfe6b1ba13c34c65c1015/mounts/shm

root@unraid:~# tree -I 'backups|documents|isos|pictures|system' /mnt/disk1
/mnt/disk1

0 directories, 0 files

root@unraid:~# tree -d -L 2 /mnt/disk2
/mnt/disk2
├── downloads
│   ├── complete
│   ├── incomplete
│   ├── torrents
│   └── unzipped
└── media
    ├── ROMS
    ├── books
    ├── games
    ├── movies
    ├── music
    ├── openvpn
    ├── other
    └── shows

root@unraid:~# tree -d -L 2 /mnt/disk3
/mnt/disk3
└── media
    └── movies

root@unraid:~# tree -d -L 2 /mnt/disk4
/mnt/disk4

0 directories

root@unraid:~# tree -d -L 2 /mnt/disk5
/mnt/disk5
└── media
    ├── Scooby Doo
    └── movies

3 directories

 

 

I may have found a workaround. 

 

I made a few changes to my /mnt/user/media/ share settings and I'm now using the unBALANCE plugin to move files between disk. 

 

The changes that I made were as follows:

 

Allocation method: from high-water to Most-free

Minimum free space: from 0KB to 10GB

 

The previous settings may not have directly contributed to the issue but I think that the new configuration fits my needs better than the defaults. 

 

Whatever unBALANCE is doing in the background, we now see the /mnt/user/media/shows/ sub directory present on disk5. 

 

root@unraid:~# ls -la /mnt/disk5/media/
total 8
drwxrwxrwx  5 nobody users   67 Jan  7 11:19 ./
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   19 May 22 15:33 ../
drwxrwxrwx  9 nobody users 4096 May 23 01:52 Scooby\ Doo/
drwxrwxrwx 10 nobody users 4096 May 25 12:37 movies/
drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody users   48 May 25 22:36 shows/

 

Even though /mnt/user/media/shows/ now points to both disk2 and disk5 why is unraid copying files from disk2 to disk2 when disk2 is 100% used and disk5 is 4% used? 

 

root@unraid:~# tree -d -L 2 /mnt/disk2 | grep -E 'media|shows|downloads'
├── downloads
└── media
    └── shows

root@unraid:~# tree -d -L 2 /mnt/disk5 | grep -E 'media|shows'
└── media
    └── shows

root@unraid:~# df -h | grep -E 'disk2|disk5'
/dev/md2        3.7T  3.7T   32G 100% /mnt/disk2
/dev/md5        3.7T  137G  3.6T   4% /mnt/disk5

 

If you want any useful feedback you need to provide your system’s diagnostics zip file (obtained via Tools >> Diagnostics) attached to your next post in this thread.

diagnostics zip file

unraid-diagnostics-20200526-0828.zip

Media share is set to split level 1, so if the folder where you're trying to copy to already exists on disk2 all new files will go there, split level overrides allocation method.

9 hours ago, chancedonmillion said:

why is unraid copying files from disk2 to disk2 

Unraid does not copy files. What are you actually using to do the copy?

On 5/26/2020 at 8:38 AM, johnnie.black said:

Media share is set to split level 1, so if the folder where you're trying to copy to already exists on disk2 all new files will go there, split level overrides allocation method.

This was my issue. Thank you for explaining.