Making Folders on the NAS

[jordi.c]

Hello dudes,

I was thinking about putting my passwords, firefox profile and photo's (which must be accesible on other pc's) on the NAS instead of on the desktop PC's.

Now I have two folders called FTP and Music. The folder FTP I don't use so I can delete that one. What happens with the space? Will the space go to the folder called Music?


I would like to know how 'you' people do it with making folders on the NAS. Do you make one folder with subfolders?

Best Regards,
Jordi

[arthurleung]

Since both folders are on the same 'RAID', deleting it will have no effect on the space at all.

Music and FTP are treated as two folders on the partition "RAID" using the same space.

[jordi.c]

Since both folders are on the same 'RAID', deleting it will have no effect on the space at all.

Music and FTP are treated as two folders on the partition "RAID" using the same space.

Thanks for your reply Arthur.

Why is moving from the Music directory to the FTP directory slower than inside the Music directory. That is why I thought space is allocated for each folder but than I thought I didn't give the folder an amount of space.

Is making root directories the same as making partitions on a harddrive? Moving files from partition to partition on a harddrive is also much slower than into one partition of course.

I don't see the benefit of making more than one root directory because of the above mentioned slower copying/moving between two root directorys instead of one root directory.

I hope my message is readable english grammar

[pit234a]

The folders that you can create with the webif are not directly in ther root tree. The Unix tree starts with / and from there, all folders and subfolders go.
In the case of 5200, what I have here, this is an example:

root@127.0.0.1:/# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Apr 5 14:29 app/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Dec 11 04:34 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 boot/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 cloopfs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 21 23:20 clooprom/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 db/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 5120 Apr 21 21:20 dev/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 21 23:20 etc -> /app/etc/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 home/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 img/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Apr 21 21:20 lib/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Dec 11 04:34 linuxrc -> bin/busybox*
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Feb 25 19:08 logfs/
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 11 04:34 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 opt/
dr-xr-xr-x 95 root root 0 Apr 21 23:20 proc/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Apr 21 21:20 raid/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Apr 21 21:20 raid0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 11 04:34 ramfs -> /tmpfs/ramfs@
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Apr 21 21:20 root/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Dec 11 04:34 sbin/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Apr 21 23:20 sys/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 11 04:34 tmp -> /tmpfs/tmp/
drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 140 Apr 21 23:20 tmpfs/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 usr/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 11 04:34 var -> /tmpfs/var/
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Dec 11 04:34 var1/

and:

root@127.0.0.1:/# ls -l /raid0
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Apr 6 19:43 data/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 21 21:20 snapshot/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 22 00:00 sys/
root@127.0.0.1:/# ls -l /raid0/data
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 4 23:47 dlnamedia/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 21:20 ftproot/
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Apr 4 23:46 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Apr 19 09:23 module/
drwxrwxrwx 3 admin admingro 4096 Apr 4 23:47 nsync/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 9 21:42 pit/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 5 10:19 target_usb/
drwxrwxrwx 4 admin smbusers 4096 Apr 6 15:12 test/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 21 20:53 tmp/
drwxrwxrwx 2 admin admingro 4096 Apr 4 23:47 usbcopy/
drwxrwxrwx 4 admin admingro 4096 Apr 11 18:29 usbhdd/

so, what you see in your webif, belongs exactly to /raid0/data/. That has nothing to do with partitions. A partition can be mountet to any given folder in your tree.
Every folder may be created to serve a different user, this means, it can have different ownerships and rights. Depending the method you use to connect to the NAS, you will have to authorize as one of the system known users and moving files from one folder to one other may probably change this rights. Within one folder, there has no real data transfer to take place, just the information about the place where the data is stored has to be changed and depending on the filesystem in use, some details more. Moving to a new folder means, that there can be a lot of options that may be different, even storage location and filesystems.
You may create a folder in whatever way you want. All freedom that is typically in Unix-Systems is given on the NAS too.

[Techlover]

What is the maximum no. of folders one can create on N5200? Is it possible to create more than 500 folders?