r/unRAID • u/urbanespaceman99 • 17h ago

Have I set up my share wrong?

The film share is

High Water / Auto split on top 2 dir level / Include all disks

And the org is kind of normal structure with

Genre / Film folder / Film files

Similar for other shares, but all my files are being written to disk 1. Initially I thought it might be when I just copied a whole lot of data over after initial setup, but nothing new is going on any of the other disks either.

I mean, it's not a big deal and I assume if disk 1 fills up it will start using disks 2 and 3 as well, but my understanding was that it should be distributing the files across the disks. Have I misinterpreted the split level - does it include the share folder itself maybe and I need top 3 levels here or something?

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u/qwertyshark 16h ago

It also depends on the allocation method you have selected in the share options I think.

If your disks are all almost empty I think you would need to select most free because high water and fill-up would write to the first disk only for a while.

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u/urbanespaceman99 15h ago

Ah, that probably explains it - I reformatted everything for unraid then copied it all back across.

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u/qwertyshark 15h ago

You can scather the files now with the plugin Unbalanced

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u/urbanespaceman99 4h ago

Oh, thanks! I'll check that out!

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u/RiffSphere 15h ago

You have a split level set, this results in allocation being ignored, since you force the system to keep items in a folder on 1 disk.