more like a collision I have a dataset and a folder with the same nameWhat is this dataset crash you speak of?
zfs unmount tank/mediafiles
mv /mnt/tank/mediafiles /mnt/tank/mediafiles_dir
zfs mount tank/mediafiles
mc
for the sake of simplicity. Once you've moved the files over, restart the Plex jail.Not in the least--I don't see how it's any different from what you've been saying. And as Ornias says, I literally gave you step-by-step instructions to solve it, though you'll obviously need to replace the pool and dataset names with the actual ones. Since you have a space in the dataset name, put it in quotes.if that make more sense
That is not surprising in the least.I have no clue how this happened
Which flak? I don't see it in your other duplicate thread.I got flack for hiding it the first time and I got flack for not hiding it this time can't win I suppose
Because in Unix, a space is ordinarily a separator. It separates commands from arguments, and one argument from another. When a file or directory name contains a space, you need to quote or escape that name (or at least that space) so that the system recognizes that it's a single item. This is a pretty big deal at the CLI, much less so in a shared directory.I want to learn why not uses spaces in directory names?
Why? You have literal step-by-step, copy-and-paste instructions to do what you say you need to do.well I’m more apprehensive about the whole ordeal,
Which one? Whichever one it is, I'm sure the manpage would explain it.I’d love to learn and understand how the whole command works
Because you apparently determined eight months ago that you have an empty dataset mounted over the top of a directory that contains a lot of data, thus "hiding" that directory (or the data inside it). Though you clearly aren't in any hurry to fix this problem, you need to unmount that dataset in order to access the directory. Once you've done that, you can rename the directory (so it doesn't conflict with the dataset), then re-mount the dataset. At that point, you can move the data from the directory into the dataset.why the unmount of the Media Library is necessary?
...once you tell the Plex jail to use the new path as a mountpoint, and reconfigure any file shares that were pointing to the old path.Boom. Done.
...once you tell the Plex jail to use the new path as a mountpoint, and reconfigure any file shares that were pointing to the old path.