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Root is 97% full
Hi. I am new to this, so apologies in advance. Whilst on holiday I started to receive error emails from the NAS that the anti virus software wasnt able to be updated. After a few days and now I get a ...
- Hi Mark, thank you for your reply.
I was trying to avoid the cost of netgear support, but I don’t even know what ssh is, so unfortunately will go down the support route. Thank you. John.
WARNING ! It is NOT FOR UNEXPERIENCED USERS!
1. Enable SSH for your account in Readynas GUI (But then you will maybe loose guarantee)
2login into ssh
3. In shell check if u are root
4. look for
/tmp
dir and try to delete everything in there (best make backup of that on your nas disks)
5. If U get some space try to install tool
"ncdu" by apt-get install ncdu
and start it on console by
ncdu -x -r /
and look where the most used space is (NCDU scans all folders looking for usage). If you are sure what to delete, then use ncdu again but with
ncdu -x /
Without -r you can delete files!!!
But AGAIN THIS IS NOT FOR UNEXPERIENCED USERS!!!
8ohmh wrote:
WARNING ! It is NOT FOR UNEXPERIENCED USERS!
I've never used ncdu, so no recommendations either way on that.
One thing you missed was the need to mount the OS partition to a temporary mount point. That is a really important step.
That is done with
# mount --bind / /mnt
Then search /mnt for the extraneous files.
When done, you can unmount /mnt using
# cd / # umount /mnt
The hardest part is figuring out what to delete. I suggest asking here, then people can post what is in their folders, so you have a reference to compare against.
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