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Aad
Aspirant
Oct 21, 2015
Solved

ReadyNAS 102 free diskspace.

I got a warning that my diskspace was used for more than 70%. I tried to free up some space but after I deleted a buch of files the consumed diskspace stays the same. When I used the property functi...
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    Aad
    Oct 21, 2015

    Hi StephenB,

    Cristal clear! Thanks.

    Thanks for your help.

     

    Regards, Aad

     

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 21, 2015

Usually this problem happens because you have snapshots enabled (so deleting the files doesn't actually remove them).

 

So check that first.  You can delete snapshots for each share from the web ui.

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