AMCross Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 i have four 3 tb drives in a drivepool D: E: F: G: and drivepool being 10.7tb and Z: in D i have no folders in E i have POOLPART and then server folders music and pictures in F i have POOLPART and then server folders music and pictures IN G i have server folder and nothing inside and Z: i have server folders and again music pictures and all my dvd or blu ray rips im confused should all my drives have something on them and also have pool part folders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 gtaus Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 2 hours ago, AMCross said: im confused should all my drives have something on them and also have pool part folders You have not stated how much data you have in your DrivePool. I just use the default DrivePool Balancers, and over time, the drives will fill up with data more or less equally. If you just started moving data onto DrivePool, it may be that not all drives have been used yet. The DrivePool GUI gives a visual graph of the usage of your drives. If there is not much difference, I would not be concerned. If you see one drive half full and another empty, then you might need to check which Balancers you have turned on and your Balancing settings in the DrivePool GUI. I have my settings to automatically balance the drives as needed. AMCross 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 AMCross Posted January 17, 2021 Author Share Posted January 17, 2021 the gui shows all hard drives between 45 to 51% full thats what made me wonder today to be honest so its approx 5tb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Umfriend Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 It's a bit of a long shot but perhaps on the E and F drives, the PoolPart.* folder is not hidden and on the D and G drives it is? You can set Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders. AMCross 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 AMCross Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 umfriend why didnt i think of that you right thank you just a side not should i have two poolpart folders on some drives ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Umfriend Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 You can have two PoolPart.* folders on one drive at one folder level (e.g. root) but that is a symptom of something gone a bit wrong. Long story. Only one of them would be the real currently active PoolPart.* folder. A PoolPart.* folder can in fact contain yet another PoolPart.* folder in the case where you use Hierarchical Pools. But mostly, no, normally a drive has one PoolPart.* folder in the root. You're most welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 If the drives were in a pool, and removed, it is possible to have multiple poolpart folders on a disk. The "removed" folders will not be hidden, while the active ones will be, usually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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i have four 3 tb drives in a drivepool
D: E: F: G: and drivepool being 10.7tb and Z:
in D i have no folders
in E i have POOLPART and then server folders music and pictures
in F i have POOLPART and then server folders music and pictures
IN G i have server folder and nothing inside
and Z: i have server folders and again music pictures and all my dvd or blu ray rips
im confused should all my drives have something on them and also have pool part folders
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