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Piglet
Luminary
Dec 17, 2014

Cancel a defrag

I started a defrag on my RN104 about 60h ago and it still hasn't finished. It has so far eaten up about 70GB and I'm getting low on free space, so I want to move files off the NAS to make more room fo...
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Piglet
Luminary
Dec 18, 2014
After freeing up about 250GB I started the defrag again and it completed in 6h this time.

It did however consume 200GB of space. :shock: Is this because COW:ed data is duplicated during defrag? If so, what is the best way to reclaim it? Would running something like bedup be a good idea?

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