KiB or GB

[csearle]

Im hopping someone can help me here I have a dataset that has about 150Gb but my pool shows that I only have 124KiB I can SMB into that dataset and I can see all my files. im just bewildered on why that dataset won't show me the right size.. I don't have a share to my Main pool to see if my files are on the main pool..

I hope someone can clarify this for me

 

[sretalla]

if you go to CLI and use du -sh /mnt/candace.../Media\ Library (maybe you need to fill in the ... as you blanked it in the screenshot), what size do you get.

I suspect you have a dataset/directory collision happening.

 

[csearle]

Please have patients with me as we go threw this im new to Command lines..
.... are those to other datasets?? I would have to go threw those other datasets to get to that dataset?

 

[CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet]

Please have patients with me as we go threw this im new to Command lines..
.... are those to other datasets?? I would have to go threw those other datasets to get to that dataset?

The "..." bits in sretalla's command are parts of the path that you need to fill in or modify according to who you have named your datasets.

When you navigate to a dataset from the command line, it's path begins with /mnt/, which is then followed by the name of the "root" dataset which is the same as name you gave your pool when you created it. In your case it appears that you named your pool, and thus the root dataset, "Candace". So the address would start with /mnt/Candace/. The "Candace" dataset is what is known as a "parent" dataset as it has a "child" dataset(s) mounted under it, one of which is called "Media Library". There's also "Transmission", what ever is under the pink circle and the "iocage" dataset.

Because "Media Library" has a space in the name you have to either enclose the path of the dataset in quotations marks such as "/mnt/Candace/Media Library" or you have to use a backslash \ which is what is known as an "escape charactor".

So assuming that your root dataset is called Candace, then the command sretalla posted would be du -sh /mnt/Candace/Media\ Library or du -sh "/mnt/Candace/Media Library".

 

[csearle]

Thank you for that help, I just needed to understand
Here is my result of doing that command

 

[sretalla]

So from that, we see that there's a directory (with the same name as the dataset) under the Candace Dataset consuming 273 GB as part of the 359 GB in there.

This kind of dataset/directory collision means that you can't use the dataset.

You can:
1. not care about it and continue as you are
2. rename the directory and optionally copy/move the contents into the dataset and use the dataset
3. delete the dataset and continue using the directory.

 

[csearle]

As for my mount points for my Plex i would have to redo those as well???

 

[sretalla]

As for my mount points for my Plex i would have to redo those as well???

If you land with a dataset holding all the data and it has the same name as the directory does today, the mount would remain the same, so no need to re-do it. (it's not exactly difficult though)

 

[csearle]

Oh interesting... this I’ll have to look into

Thanks

 

[csearle]

@ornias this is what I was talking about not sure thus will clear things up

 

[ornias]

Dude, you made a duplicate thread for the same problem?! Reported.

How to use the mv command to move files from one dataset to another

Looking up rsync right now.. but wouldn’t renaming the folder stop the dataset crash, and I’d-just have to move the files to the dataset?

www.truenas.com

 

[csearle]

Still not solved, Report me/this but im still where im at I have no clue what command to use and or how to use them, like my profile says NOOB! im not ashamed of it. Im willing to learn all about these commands, hesitant to use them, not willing loose data,

 

[ornias]

Listen, making duplicate threads is not okey... even if your issue is not resolved. There where multiple people trying to help you in your previous thread.
You maybe are a noob, that doesn't mean you should spam a forum with duplicate threads for the same issue.