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jb89
Mar 31, 2018Aspirant
Large Used/Free Space Discrepancy
Not sure how to find where this additional space is. including a Time machine backup there is a total of 3.6TB consumed out of the 8tb or so capacity. Snapshots were on at one point. I deleted al...
StephenB
Apr 02, 2018Guru - Experienced User
What firmware are you running?
Have you ever run a balance?
Also, how old is the data volume? If it's very old there might be ancient snapshots that aren't visible from the web UI.
- jb89Apr 02, 2018Aspirant
Ver 6.9.3
Ran balance regularly on a schedule.
Volume is old but snapshots were turned off and deleted after s month or two of setup.
- StephenBApr 02, 2018Guru - Experienced User
You could enable ssh, and confirm there are no snapshots left using the linux shell commands.
- jb89Apr 05, 2018Aspirant
Nothing in there. Unless I dont have the right commands.
I have also tried
# touch /.force_snapshots_upgrade # systemctl restart readynasd
Nothing. The gui shows nothing for snapshots either as shown in my screen shot. Balancing does nothing.
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