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Aspirant

Mar 24, 2020

Can't Free Up Space

I am having a similar problem some older threads (links to them below)... files deleted from a volume do not free up space. 4 JBOD drives, various sizes, using this as a basic file server Firmware ...

Marc_V

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Mar 25, 2020

4Js_Mom

Welcome to the Community!

Have you done the volume maintenance and completed all task again? It is advisable not to update or do any processes if there are issues present on the NAS more of it involves data and the disks.

I would suggest running the volume maintenance tasks and let it finish. You may want to download the full logs. If you want to take a look on SSH then you may want to follow the threads below:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/Large-Used-Free-Space-Discrepancy/m-p/1447490#M168119

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/Freeing-up-space-on-the-OS-partition-RAIDar-4-2-28-ReadyNAS/m-p/1126875#M114186

Other users as well may provide more information.

HTH

Regards