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Starlionblue3
Oct 01, 2015Tutor
Frontview shows ReadyNAS NVX as dead, but everything works fine.
Hiya. I have a ReadyNAS NVX with 4x 3TB Seagate disks. It has been chugging along for years without any issues. After a power outage a few days ago, Frontview shows the volume as a yellow bli...
- Oct 02, 2015
Starlionblue3 wrote:
Not a huge amount but some. Can I delete everything in tmp and var/log?...
You should be able to delete everything in /tmp. Not so sure about /var/log. Some of those files are probably open (in which case the system won't let you delete them). I think the others will likely be recreated.
I think there must be a folder that has a lot of extraneous files in it - the trick is finding it. If you ever used ReadyDLNA, also look in /var/cache/minidlna
find . -mindepth 1 -mount | wc -l
will count all the files in the current folder and its subfolders.
Try it in /var /usr /lib /etc ... and see if you can find the folder.
...Every delete seems to give me a measly 1 extra inode free...
Yes
StephenB
Oct 01, 2015Guru - Experienced User
Do you have ssh enabled? If so you might want to check the fullness of the OS partition.
If not, start by trying to delete all the logs. DON'T try to download them.
Starlionblue3
Oct 01, 2015Tutor
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Thanks for your reply. I don't have SSH installed. How would I delete all logs without SSH installed?
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