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dschwartzer
Luminary
Jan 15, 2017
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Larger Disks - No More Space

I have a RN526X running OS 6.6.1.  I had two (2) 1TB Seagate drives in the unit using X-RAID. At that point, the system showed:   data  133.79 GB Snapshots:  11.95 GB Free Space: 779.34 GB RAID ...
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    Jan 15, 2017

    O.K. Weirdly your root volume was showing up as having four disks not two. I fixed that.

    The RAID had not expanded to use the additional space on the two disks so I manually triggered that. This may take an hour or two or so to complete.

    Once that is done the volume should then expand automatically.

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