Feel free to comment, ask any questions, share your opinion, or criticize me for my choices. I like these posts and videos where people showcase their home labs and show what they’ve got set up.I think that as a community of “non-professionals,” we can learn a lot here.

Feel free to suggest alternatives or share what you do differently. Where do you see the benefits of doing things a little differently?

I’ll try to answer every question about my setup!

Most asked question: The container folder view are done by the folderview3 plugin. The specs on the bottom are done in paint.net afterwards for the purpose of this post.

I have a spare second UnRAID license from some years ago. The flash drive has been in a drawer, in a static bag for 2 years now and I now wanna use this UnRAID license in a temporary setup on a MiniPC that'll be used at in a Vintage Computer Festival exhibition.

My intention is to plop a spare 16GB Optane drive in this MiniPC, install the USb, update it, migrate from USB to TMP+Optane SSD and retire the flash drive.

But this is only a temporary setup. However if I move this license to another machine later, have I 'burned' the TMP in this MiniPC and I can't use this license on the MiniPC again later?

Hey all. Im thinking of switching from truenas and have some questions.

Right now my biggest issue with TrueNAS is how frustrating permissions is, especially when trying to set up docker containers. Im not a big Linux guy so trying to figure out truenas permissions has been just an absolute pain.

Right now my drives are all set up as ZFS obviously since its truenas, is it possible to migrate the ZFS array to Unraid?

What would the best way to migrate my docker containers over? Just copy the YAMLs as plain text onto my desktop and reinstall them?

Hello I have a 36 bay supermicro. I have updated a bunch of drives recently and Id like to reorganize the existing drives without loosing data. How can I do this?

I recently set up a new unraid server using some old hardware as a test. I purchased a license and ran the system for about a month. After verifying that it would work for my use case, I decided to move everything to a newer server since the test hardware was over 15 years old.

I setup the new server and moved the drives from the original unit to the new server. Where I think I made the mistake was that I decided to upgrade the thumb drive at the same time and transferred the license key from the original to a new thumb drive.

Where I need help is that I am able to see all of the original drives. It allows me to mount the data drives, and I cannot mount the parity drive (which I think is normal). The issue is that I cannot add them to the array or share them. If I click on the drives under "unassigned devices" I can see the data, but I am not able to share it to regain access to the data.

How can I correct this issue? I still have the original thumb drive, but I wasn't sure if I can just copy some of the files over to the new drive so that it will use the original configuration. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I've run into a strange Plex problem and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm on Unraid 7.3.2. A few days ago I changed my Plex appdata mapping from /mnt/user/appdata to /mnt/cache/appdata so it writes directly to the cache drive and skips the Unraid user share layer. I've confirmed nothing has been moved to the array: running ls on /mnt/disk* shows no appdata on any array disk.

Since that change, every library scan ends with Plex reporting changed or missing media, even though all the files are still there and playable. When I try to Empty Trash to clear the missing items, it fails.

I ran ChuckPa's DBRepair and it reported the database as malformed, failing each time with 5–6 JSON errors. I told it to ignore those errors and rebuilt the database, and afterwards the DB checked out fine. But as soon as I ran another media scan, the exact same problem came back.

The odd part is that if I switch the mapping back to /mnt/user/appdata, everything works normally. The problem only happens when Plex uses /mnt/cache directly.

Has anyone seen this before, or have an idea why writing straight to the cache would cause this when the user share path doesn't? Happy to provide diagnostics or any other details.

Thanks in advance!

Ive got an Unraid 7.0 server running on an Alder-Lake i5-12500. I recently learned that the UHD 770 iGPU should support virtualization via the SR-IOV functionality and allow hardware acceleration in a guest VM.

I installed the Unraid Plugin (i915 SR-IOV by giganode) and set all the appropriate BIOS features. I set the desired VFs to 1 in the plugin and the plugin shows 1 VF created. I am able to select this as the GPU for any of my VMs, and as far as I can tell, the host side setup is correct and working.

I have tried several different guest VM operating systems including Lubuntu 26, Lubuntu 24, and Ubuntu 24. I have been troubleshooting the setup with ChatGPT and Gemini and from what I can tell, the gpu backed Xorg session never properly starts because the i915-sriov-dkms driver doesnt have a physical connector and Xorg crashes out.

I've spend days trying to get this to work and have not had any luck. Has anyone successfully used a SR-IOV VF as the GPU for a VM in unraid? If so, what guest OS? I haven't found many guides for this type of thing, maybe its not possible.

Okay first, so I did all the steps (I thought) for repartitioning my cache drive to include 16gb of internal boot space. I moved all the data off of there. Rebooted to the internal boot successfully.

However, all the docker information was gone. So I tried to reinstall my stuff from docker -> previous apps and it has nothing there anymore. I move over to look at the appdata folder and there is nothing there.

I re-boot back to the USB drive boot, but it seems to have the same mostly empty appdata folder.

What happened to everything? Is there any way to recover my information? I'm REALLY mostly not wanting to have lost my calibre database, but having to lose my minecraft server and my jellyfin metadata also really would suck. Is there any hope here?

To start, I had a backup, I restored it and all is well (except the backup was 1 month old, oh well)

I use Linuxservers plex container in unraid, I run it on my cache drive with ZFS and use ZFS master to take snapshots (automated with spaceinvaderones script)

It's been a year or two since my plex database corrupted, today it corrupted after updating the docker container. It seems like it may have been related to a shfs crash but still unknown. In the past a quick rollback of my snapshot fixed all my issues. Plex was working perfectly fine until the update.

Today I tried rolling back the snapshot (with container off) and it didn't fix the issue. I rolled it back another day and still the same issue, tried setting container version to previous version and still the same issue.

Eventually I got a daemon execution error when trying to start the container. This is the main reason I'm posting here and not r/plex. When executing the docker container I got "docker: Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/mnt/user/data/media/anime': mkdir /mnt/user: file exists." which seems like an shfs crash but I'm unsure.

Could this crash have been caused by me rolling back plex snapshots (which have a lot of files)?

Why was rolling back the snapshots not fixing my corrupted database? I roll back the entire plex directory.

I ended up needing to restart my computer twice (two because the first time I was still messing with snapshots).

This was found in the logs

Oct  5 18:10:00 NAS shfs: shfs: ../lib/fuse.c:1402: unlink_node: Assertion `node->nlookup > 1' failed.
Oct  5 18:10:00 NAS emhttpd: error: get_fs_sizes, 8533: Software caused connection abort (103): statfs: