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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...
mdgm wrote: 6.2 didn't enable CoW. It added the option to disable CoW.
I was under the impression that if you didn't have snapshots enabled, CoW wasn't enabled either? Because the share where I downloaded my torrents had snapshots disabled, and when checking after upgrading to 6.2 the CoW option was on. That's why I'm thinking 6.2 enabled it for me.
One option would be to create new shares, copy your data into those shares and then delete the original shares.
Do I have to create a new share or can I copy the data to an external disk, delete the original files and then copy the files back? This would be preferable since I'm low on space on the NAS but have a 2TB USB disk I could use as temporary storage.
When you run lsattr on a file you will see if CoW is enabled or not.
How would lsattr show files with CoW enabled vs disabled? All the files I have checked show just blanks (no flags), e.g.
---------------- ./0001302400.pdf
---------------- ./Atelier
---------------- ./BACKUPS
---------------- ./Blindpassasjer
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