Must Have Unraid Plugins - Part 3 Disk Utility Plugins. The discussion specific to unBALANCE starts here. UnBALANCE helps you manage space in your Unraid array, via two operating modes: Scatter Transfer data out of a disk, into one or more disks. Gather Consolidate data from a user share into a single disk. Delete each share within the UnRAID webui open each share to delete. They must be empty. Maybe a shorter way, but that's the only way I know.
An update for v6 users, here are 2 FAQ entries, for removing one drive, or for removing multiple drives. The rest of the page is for v5 or lower.
- Note: this section is for v5 users!
There are a few reasons you'd want to do this: you want to repurpose the drive for some other reason, or the drive has failed or is failing.
Digi rabbit field utility download. First I'll go over repurposing a working drive.
There are two main steps to this process.
- copy any information off the drive back to your array so you don't lose any data
- reset the array parity
Before proceeding, make sure to take a screenshot of your current drive configuration!
I'm going to do this by example. Here is what my default unRAID web GUI looks like
Shibaura Tractor Manuals. I've got seven drives. Data drives 1-5, a parity drive, and a cache drive. I'm going to pretend that disk3 (located from the shell at /mnt/disk3) is the drive I want to remove. For my setup, I've got all my files located in user shares (from the shell /mnt/user/TV, for instance). My user shares are all setup as 'high water' allocation. If you click on the folder icon, next to 'disk3' you'll see if there are any files located on that drive. In my case, there are. I need to copy those files off disk3 (/mnt/disk3) back to my user shares (/mnt/user).
Telnet into your machine and type 'mc' into command line. You can use the GUI to easily and safely copy your existing data. If you're a first time MC user press F9 which will bring up the menu and options. If you use a cache drive then simply copy the contents of disk3 to /mnt/cache to prevent duplicate issues. Make sure that you remove disk3 before the 'mover' script has chance to run though!
Another method involves using rsync which would be better if you wanted to only copy the differences between the source and dest dirs. rsync -a /mnt/disk3/ /mnt/user will copy the contents of disk3 to /mnt/user. Use the -n flag to do a dry run.
- Stop the array by pressing 'Stop' on the management interface. Un-assign the drive on the Devices page, then return to the unRAID Main page.
- Select the 'Utils' tab
- Choose 'New Config'
- Agree and create a new config
- Reassign all of the drives you wish to keep in the array
- Start the array and let parity rebuild
On versions of unRAID prior to 5.0 [Beta ??]
Log in on the system console or via telnet and type the command below to create a new system.dat file and reset the array configuration data.
unRAID will ask you to confirm you wish to set a new disk configuration. you must respond with Yes (capital Y and lower case es)
When the initconfig command is invoked, old parity data will be immediately discarded, and the process of parity calculation on the remaining assigned and working drives will begin when you next start the array. At this point, your array will not be again protected from a disk failure until the system can complete the process of generating new parity information.
UPDATE: A alternative process for removing a drive from the array can be found here. It allows you to remove a drive without losing parity. The tradeoff is that will take much longer.
On versions of unRAID prior to 4.5.4
- Stop the array by pressing 'Stop' on the management interface.
- Un-assign the drive on the Devices page
- Return to the Main page and check the checkbox below the Restore button (which is actually a Set Initial Configuration button)
- Then click the Restore button to create a new system.dat file and reset the array configuration data.
When the Restore button is clicked, old parity data will be immediately discarded, and the process of parity calculation on the remaining assigned and working drives will begin. At this point, your array will not be again protected from a disk failure until the system can complete the process of generating new parity information.
Over the years Unraid has grown from a simple Network Attached Storage server OS, to a full application platform featuring Docker containers and Virtual Machine support. It can be daunting for new users to navigate the volume of information spread across our Wiki, Forum and Help section ⍰ within the product itself. With this in mind, we will be publishing a series of new user blog posts over the coming months to address some common questions as well as share some tips, tricks and best practices to ultimately help everyone new to Unraid get the most out of our OS!
In this installment, we will be talking about:
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- Unraid and the USB flash drive
- Using the USB Flash Creator tool
- How drives are counted towards the license limit
- Default Password and How to reset your root password
- How to rename your server (Tower)
- How to change banner images and themes
The Unraid OS/USB Flash relationship:
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A good place to start is with the USB flash drive. We highly recommend you use a high-quality, name-brand USB flash device with at least 1GB capacity. Kingston, PNY, Lexar, and SanDisk brand USBs are good options and will help to ensure that the OS runs properly and the USB doesn’t fail on you. SanDisk Cruzer Fit's are very popular choices for many Unraid users for their low profile design and reliability.
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Cheaper ones tend to fail more quickly than a quality USB manufacturer. Once you have Unraid up and running either via a free trial or a purchased license key, it’s important to know that Unraid does not run from the flash drive. The flash drive simply unpacks an archive of the OS into RAM when it boots and the Unraid OS is actually running in RAM. During normal operation the USB Flash device is only periodically written with vital configuration data.
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Here are a few high quality, brand name USB's recommended for use with Unraid OS: