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Blues11
Luminary
Apr 04, 2021

Best practice for rearranging large directories

Situation: I have two large Shares (one is about 4TB, the other about 2TB) on this ReadyNAS with four 8TB drives in a RAID5 X-RAID configuration. Of the available 23TB, about 15TB are free. The large...
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Sandshark
Sensei
Apr 04, 2021

Are you comfortable with a command line interface?  Using SSH to access the Linux command line of the  NAS and then issuing commands from that is the fastest way to accomplish what you want.  As long as you are not moving files between shares, it will just move the pointers to the files, not the file content.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 04, 2021
Blues11  wrote:

To make access easier, I'd like to amalgamate those 4 top level directories into one large directory with about 2200 directories.

You might find that easier, but browsing will likely be quite a bit slower.

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