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Digital999
May 25, 2022Luminary
Command line help
This is an unusual request for assistance. We have IDrive backup application installed on the ReadyNAS systems. As a Backup App it seems full featured and aside from some GUI confusion works we...
StephenB
May 25, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Digital999 wrote:
We are barely literate with LINUX commands. I would appreciate it if a kind individual could provide “ls” command or equivalent that would locate the errant “ZZZZ” directory. I will in turn delete it after some investigation.
Log into ssh using root as the username and the NAS admin password.
find /data -type d -name "ZZZZ" -print
will find all the ZZZZ directories in the data volume (and output the full path to the folder).
Note that data in the above command needs to match the actual volume name you are searching in. (With X-RAID, the volume name is always data).
Digital999
May 25, 2022Luminary
Thanks -- found it.
It was in the /media directory and apparently related to an old Seagate drive I had been testing with years ago that was removed and replaced with operational drives.
I appreciate you kind help.
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