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mvachon
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Jun 21, 2016
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Deleting Files and Snapshots does not free up space - UI shows no more snapshots to delete

  My ReadyNAS 104, running OS 6.5 was getting tight on space a couple months ago (4 x 4Tb).  I deleted all the snapshots, but the UI still shows the snapshots taking up a bunch of space.  Fast forwa...
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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    Jul 28, 2016

    If you are comfortable with the support implications of using SSH you could do e.g. 

    # touch /.force_snapshots_upgrade
# systemctl restart readynasd

     

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mvachon
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Jun 21, 2016

And yes, i'm just using the default "data" as my volume name.

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mvachon
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Jun 21, 2016

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  • mvachon's avatar
    mvachon
    Tutor
    Jun 23, 2016

    No success on running the balance, defrag, and scrub.  Still showing 4.44 TB of snapshots.

    • mvachon's avatar
      mvachon
      Tutor
      Jun 26, 2016

      Still no success.  Anyone know if I'm stuck doing a factory restore on the unit to get rid of those phantom snapshots?

      • garyd9's avatar
        garyd9
        Virtuoso
        Jun 26, 2016

        Are you still under at least "chat" warranty?  If so, try to engage netgear's chat support.  They might be able to get someone to remote into your nas and look around...

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