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Balance trashed my NAS Readynas RN104
Help wanted... I have Readynas 104 with 4x3TB Seagate drives. It was 85% full and I decided to delete 0.75TB of data. Available space did not increase so decided to run Balance. The device became...
StephenB,
I have now downloaded the Zip Log - there's a lot! Is there any parts that youo would like me to post, for the benefit of the community?
Phil
Available space not increasing probably meant that you had snapshots containing the deleted data (all snapshots containing deleted data must be deleted to free up space) or needed to be a bit more patient for the deletion to lead to free space increasing.
Balancing is not the way to free up space. Space can be allocated to data, metadata and system or be unallocated. Balancing moves data and metadata around so that empty chunks can be returned to unallocated space.
Before balancing it's advisable to get volume usage below 80%.
Balancing is probably the most overused volume maintenance option.
The system will automatically return empty chunks to unallocated space anyway which would happen when deleting a large amount of data as a significant portion of that data is likely full chunks.
You could try the volume read-only boot menu option and see if it boots up.
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