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Disk usage on fresh install
I've just recieved my Readynas Ultra 4 and fitted it with the 2TB Seagate Barracuda Green drive that the store bundled the NAS with. When I first activated Jumbo Frames in FrontView I couldn't access ...
It did occur to me that this may be the case, but that doesn't explain why RAIDar shows 204 MB (0%) of 1841 GB used whilst FrontView shows 47 GB (2%) of 1841 GB used.
So the drive's capacity is 1863 GB
The volume's capacity in both FrontView and RAIDar is 1841 GB
Disk usage according to RAIDar: 204 MB (0%) of 1841 GB used
Disk usage according to FrontView: 47 GB (2%) of 1841 GB used
So it's a bit confusing. I connected the drive to my PC and disk management in Windows 7 shows three primary partitions. One 4 GB, one 512 MB and one 1858,51 GB.
If I've understood this correctly, then a portion of the 1858,51 GB partition is used by the system and hidden from the user (since the NAS only reports 1841 GB). In this case 17,51 GB. The 4 and .5 GB partitions are presumably also used by the system. So that's 22 GB system-reserved space. Add to that the 47 GB reported by FrontView. I can accept that the NAS requires some swap space reserved, no drive should be chock-full, I just want to know that this is by design and not just some bug. Nowhere have I seen mention of exactly how much space is used by the system itself. And then there's still the question of why RAIDar and FrontView show different usage numbers.
EDIT: I just want to make sure everything is in order so that when I install the two other 2 TB drives I intend to use and spend all weekend transferring ~4 TB of data, I don't end up having to do a factory reset again.
So the drive's capacity is 1863 GB
The volume's capacity in both FrontView and RAIDar is 1841 GB
Disk usage according to RAIDar: 204 MB (0%) of 1841 GB used
Disk usage according to FrontView: 47 GB (2%) of 1841 GB used
So it's a bit confusing. I connected the drive to my PC and disk management in Windows 7 shows three primary partitions. One 4 GB, one 512 MB and one 1858,51 GB.
If I've understood this correctly, then a portion of the 1858,51 GB partition is used by the system and hidden from the user (since the NAS only reports 1841 GB). In this case 17,51 GB. The 4 and .5 GB partitions are presumably also used by the system. So that's 22 GB system-reserved space. Add to that the 47 GB reported by FrontView. I can accept that the NAS requires some swap space reserved, no drive should be chock-full, I just want to know that this is by design and not just some bug. Nowhere have I seen mention of exactly how much space is used by the system itself. And then there's still the question of why RAIDar and FrontView show different usage numbers.
EDIT: I just want to make sure everything is in order so that when I install the two other 2 TB drives I intend to use and spend all weekend transferring ~4 TB of data, I don't end up having to do a factory reset again.
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