I've just finished building my first UnRAID rig, and I want to move the contents of several USB hard drives to the UnRAID box. They were originally attached to another Linux machine, so they are ext2, and show up in UnRAID. I have them mounted and, as a test, have moved a directory to a user share I created previously, but I want to be sure this is an acceptable method.

 

Here's what I did:  I created a user share named 'TV'. I then copied a directory to '/mnt/user/TV' (using the command cp -r /path/to/dir /mnt/user/TV).

Here's my question: Will parity be intact using this method, i.e. will it be calculated properly during the file move? From what I can tell, the destination directory exists within the UnRAID protected system.

 

I have read a few threads on the subject of moving data from locally mounted drives that are not in UnRAID (as I'm doing), but none that discussed where to copy files to.

 

Thank you,

Dave

 

 

I've just finished building my first UnRAID rig, and I want to move the contents of several USB hard drives to the UnRAID box. They were originally attached to another Linux machine, so they are ext2, and show up in UnRAID. I have them mounted and, as a test, have moved a directory to a user share I created previously, but I want to be sure this is an acceptable method.

 

Here's what I did:  I created a user share named 'TV'. I then copied a directory to '/mnt/user/TV' (using the command cp -r /path/to/dir /mnt/user/TV).

Here's my question: Will parity be intact using this method, i.e. will it be calculated properly during the file move? From what I can tell, the destination directory exists within the UnRAID protected system.

 

I have read a few threads on the subject of moving data from locally mounted drives that are not in UnRAID (as I'm doing), but none that discussed where to copy files to.

 

Thank you,

Dave

 

 

Yes, parity will be intact regardless of how you copy file to the directories under /mnt/user.  It will also be intact if you copy to /mnt/disk*/whatever

 

Joe L.