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gyves1
Oct 25, 2025Luminary
Unable to activate the SMB
Hi, Since several days I had an unexpected disabling of my SMB on the ReadyNAS. I'm trying to reactivate the service but each time the App button go back to grey status. Do you have an idea of the...
gyves1
Oct 25, 2025Luminary
What do you mean by full OS partition? A full reset of the RN?
- StephenBOct 25, 2025Guru - Experienced User
gyves1 wrote:
What do you mean by full OS partition?
Linux, the ReadyNAS software, and the configuration files are all saved in a 4 GB OS partition on the disks. If that gets full, then many things can go wrong. That includes config settings that don't "stick".
The logs page errors normally call this a "full root".
You can also see how full the OS partiton is by looking at the end of volume.log Scroll down to the "df -h" section and look at /dev/md0:
=== df -h === Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 10M 4.0K 10M 1% /dev /dev/md0 4.0G 981M 2.8G 26% /
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