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RR3204 - Space not being freed following data deletion
All I've trawled the forums but am getting nowhere fast. I have a 3204 with a single RAID-5 volume on 2.71TB of space. I needed to move a folder with a fair size from one share to another. ...
StephenBthanks for your response. I've dealt with Linux and Windows networking environments for many years, and normally I'd just move the data in shell, but being remote to the site the GUI was the only access I had, so didn't foresee an issue.
The problem is, this move in the GUI is now done. As I said, most of the data is gone from the original share - a small amount remains, I don't want to remove the last snapshot in case there is data loss and as OneDrive replication is off at present, the risk of data loss is too great.
What I really need to know is, without removing the last snapshot (I already removed a second snapshot for this share, and all the snapshots from some other shares - this made zero impact on the free space listed), what options are there to tidy up this failure to see the space created by the deleted files in the original share other than the headache of having to move the data off and wipe the volume? This seems to be a frequently raised question on the forums by the search I've done and the response is a very limited, you'll have to wipe it.
I'd see if I could make the snapshot accessible to Windows, and then copy off the folder I was trying to move. (Alternatively, do this with ssh - copying to a USB drive). Then delete the snapshot, and see if you can clean it up.
Another possible approach is to try expanding the volume to create more space.
Say I wasn't able to access a client on site, and wasn't able to get a USB drive in until later this week, are there any other options?
There's no ability to expand the volume as the chassis is fully populated.
CSerpentUK wrote:
There's no ability to expand the volume as the chassis is fully populated.
If the NAS is using XRAID, then vertical expansion is possible. (It is possible with flexraid also, but you'd need to upgrade all the disks in the volume to the new size).
CSerpentUK wrote:
Say I wasn't able to access a client on site, and wasn't able to get a USB drive in until later this week, are there any other options?
None that come to mind.
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