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miogpsrocks
Tutor
Jul 01, 2018

Defrag took free space from 3.51 to 2.01 TB within 1 day. No other files added. Device unresponsive

Defrag took free space from 3.51 to 2.01 TB within 1 day.    Device unresponsive 8 hours after running the degrag process, I had to reset. When it came back online, I notice the free space was at...
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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 01, 2018

Running a defrag breaks the CoW link between current data and snapshots so free space going down is expected. You can delete snapshots if you wish, yes.

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