Need some Drivepool help please

[Bingie 99]

Hi all,

I just installed Drivepool, and I have no idea what to do.

I have a 10TB drive D (Emby) with 4TB of my media.  I also have an empty 10TB drive E.

I added both Drive D and Drive E to a pool, which is drive F.  It didn't add all of my stuff on drive D to the pool.  What, I have to manually copy all of that stuff over to a pool, then delete all of that stuff, to free up the space?  That doesn't seem very smart at all.  It should ask me if I want to add all of the existing data on the drive to the new pool when I created it.

Confused.

 

Edited September 21, 2021 by Bingie

[Bingie 99]

Nevermind, I uninstalled it.  Don't need it yet, my first drive isn't even half full yet.

When I need to add another drive to keep growing my collection, that's when I'll start using Drivepool.

Thanks everyone

 

[Happy2Play 9785]

37 minutes ago, Bingie said:

I added both Drive D and Drive E to a pool, which is drive F.  It didn't add all of my stuff on drive D to the pool.  What, I have to manually copy all of that stuff over to a pool, then delete all of that stuff, to free up the space?  That doesn't seem very smart at all.  It should ask me if I want to add all of the existing data on the drive to the new pool when I created it.

Drivepool creates a poolpartxxxx folder on each drive, you would move the drive contents into  the Poolpart to sees that media in the pool drive.

Drivepool will see all this content outside of poolpart as other, since you can use the drive normally also.

But both drivepool and drive bender do the same thing that I am aware of.

 

[Carlo 4561]

As Happy2Play said there is a folder (might be hidden) with a name starting with "pool".  All you need to do is drag/drop your parent folders to that folder in File Manager.  Takes only a few seconds and now all those files are on your drive F:

So I would reinstall it and start making use of drive F.  You will then need to modify you Emby Libraries to use the new drive F: and will need to do a full library scan.

It will be easier/faster to do this now vs when you have twice as much media that needs to move.

Optionally, you could shut down Emby Server.  Move the files over then have windows change the drive letters around for you..  That way when you restart Emby the libraries look exactly the same with the same drive letter.

If you need a hand with this I could help you remotely.

Edited September 21, 2021 by cayars