"download all log files" killed pre-netgear NV

Yeah, installed the ssh addon and am now poking around looking at things.

Instead of gathering all of the log files in order to see the block size, I can just run dumpe2fs on the main device:

# dumpe2fs /dev/c/c
dumpe2fs 1.40.11 (17-June-2008)
Filesystem volume name: c
...
Block size: 4096
...

And there it is: 4k block size. Seems like I need to do a factory reset anyway to pick up the new block size, so I'm not going to worry about the size of the OS partition. I have a recent data backup (the evening before the disastrous log download attempt) and have a shiny new config backup, so that wont be too painful.

Now that I'm poking around via SSH, I'm a bit puzzled about why I had a problem in the first place. The root partition is pretty free:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc1 1.9G 894M 1.0G 46% /
tmpfs 16k 0 16k 0% /USB
/dev/c/c 681G 664G 17G 98% /c

There's a gig of free space in there....

/var/log _is_ 278MB:

# du -sh /var/log/
278M /var/log

But, still, even though "download all log files" doesn't just download static log files - system.log appears to be dynamically generated at least - a gig of free space should be enough.

Whatever - time to restore that "new NAS" smell to this tired old NV. Factory reset tonight! :-)

-Peter

EDIT: dropped the size of /var/log to 65MB by deleting the backup logs in Frontview. Apparently "clear all logs" in Status > Logs doesn't delete those. Once I get a fresh data backup, I'll try to download all logs again and see what happens now.