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Data shows a red bar
I noticed that the "data" chart on the Overview tab under the System tab is always red, showing that the space is almost used up. I only have 3.88 TB used out of the 8 TB of usable space under RAID 5...
OldTimerGuy wrote:
I only have 3.88 TB used out of the 8 TB of usable space under RAID 5 (4 3 TB drives).
Are you seeing this on the NAS volume tab, or somewhere else?
Either way, look on the volume settings wheel (on the volume tab), and make sure "quota" is enabled. That will let you see details of snapshot usage on the shares tab.
- If the space is being used by snapshots, then start by deleting the snapshots from the shares tab. After that run a balance from the volume settings wheel.
- If the space is not being used by snapshots, then just try the balance next.
StephenB wrote:
OldTimerGuy wrote:I only have 3.88 TB used out of the 8 TB of usable space under RAID 5 (4 3 TB drives).
Are you seeing this on the NAS volume tab, or somewhere else?
Either way, look on the volume settings wheel (on the volume tab), and make sure "quota" is enabled. That will let you see details of snapshot usage on the shares tab.
- If the space is being used by snapshots, then start by deleting the snapshots from the shares tab. After that run a balance from the volume settings wheel.
- If the space is not being used by snapshots, then just try the balance next.
I am seeing the red bar on the Overview tab, StephenB, The red bar is labelled "data", and it seems to indicate that the entire NAS is filled with data, which it is not.
I turned on Quota as you suggested (it said performance will be affected. Is that a problem?),
The data bar is still red and completely filled up on the Overview tab after Quota was enabled. However, on the Shares tab, the entire "data" bar is blue. The color boxes below the data bar indicate that Data is blue, Snapshots are yellow, and Free is white. Since the bar is entirely blue, wouldn't that indicate that there are no snapshots? So then, how do I balance?
Any entry in the log about the volume being made read-only? I think that turns the bar red, too.
Can you post screenshots of the overview and the volume page? Best to save them as PNG files at full resolution.
Don't worry about the performance impact of leaving quota enabled. Personally I just leave it on. However you can turn it off again after we figure out what is going on.
StephenB wrote:Can you post screenshots of the overview and the volume page? Best to save them as PNG files at full resolution.
Don't worry about the performance impact of leaving quota enabled. Personally I just leave it on. However you can turn it off again after we figure out what is going on.
Thank you, but I now just want to turn off snapshots for good and delete the ones that are there. If you have a link to this procedure, that would help.
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