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lundmilo
Luminary
May 25, 2017

Full root issue

 

I have seem some posts regarding the full root issue.

 

How can I check the state of my root and how do I avoid running into the issue?

 

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  • You can download the system logs and open the volume.log file with a text editor. Scroll down until you see something like this:

     

    === df -h ===
    Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    udev             10M  4.0K   10M   1% /dev
    /dev/md0        4.0G  560M  2.9G  17% /
    tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
    tmpfs           1.9G  2.8M  1.9G   1% /run
    tmpfs           960M  7.5M  953M   1% /run/lock
    tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
    /dev/md127       11T  4.6T  6.4T  42% /data
    /dev/md127       11T  4.6T  6.4T  42% /home
    /dev/md127       11T  4.6T  6.4T  42% /apps

    /dev/md0 is the root file system. It should have plenty of free space (< 50% used, and I've never seen ours hit even 20%, but we don't run many apps either).

    • lundmilo's avatar
      lundmilo
      Luminary

      ctechs wrote:

      You can download the system logs and open the volume.log file with a text editor. Scroll down until you see something like this:

       

      === df -h ===
      Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
      udev             10M  4.0K   10M   1% /dev
      /dev/md0        4.0G  560M  2.9G  17% /
      tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
      tmpfs           1.9G  2.8M  1.9G   1% /run
      tmpfs           960M  7.5M  953M   1% /run/lock
      tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
      /dev/md127       11T  4.6T  6.4T  42% /data
      /dev/md127       11T  4.6T  6.4T  42% /home
      /dev/md127       11T  4.6T  6.4T  42% /apps

      /dev/md0 is the root file system. It should have plenty of free space (< 50% used, and I've never seen ours hit even 20%, but we don't run many apps either).


       

      Well mine is at 52%. Is this a bad thing?

       

      • StephenB's avatar
        StephenB
        Guru - Experienced User

        lundmilo wrote:

        Well mine is at 52%. Is this a bad thing?

         


        My system is at 19%.

         

        52% isn't great, and suggests you've installed some apps that are using OS partition space.  However, it isn't dangerously full, so I don't see immediate concerns.


  • lundmilo wrote:

     

    How can I check the state of my root and how do I avoid running into the issue?


    Full root conditions are most of the times created by badly built applications or modifying the system via SSH. This is not something you need to be particularly worried about. People come here because they have issues, I doesn't mean that every ReadyNAS owners have the same issues.

    You can use SSH non-intrusively to check the status as well as via the logs (look at md0): 

    df -h
    • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
      mdgm-ntgr
      NETGEAR Employee Retired

      If you have updated to 6.7.3 and ran into the full root issue please try USB Boot Recovery with ReadyNAS OS 6.7.4 which is now available!

       

      If you have not yet upgraded please upgrade to 6.7.4 rather than 6.7.3. If your system has already been fixed or has not run into the issue I would still suggest updating to 6.7.4 the normal way using the web admin GUI.

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