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Readynas 104 drops out when copying to it
I have a readynas 104 configured with four 4tb drives in raid 5. I've managed to copy about 6tb onto the device without issue but now whenever I go to copy something onto the box, lets say a single 4...
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Readynas RN104 4*4TB hard drive
I might have found a solution
I have Turned off snapshots and deleted all snapshots
Then
Turn on ssh
login to nas as root with password
then
cd ..
cd data
cd media
change snapshot directory permission to all
chmod 777 snapshot
for some reason this unblocks the "unused" file space
I deleted the snapshot directory which is recreated everytime you delete something even though it is turned off, nothing in the directory though
I assume that i am operating in normal mode as guest and snapshot is reserved for root with the file space.
I know virtually nothing about linux and nothing about the inner workings of the RN104 so try this at your own risk
As I said it works for me
Readynas RN104 4*4TB hard drive
I might have found a solution
I have Turned off snapshots and deleted all snapshots
Then
Turn on ssh
login to nas as root with password
then
cd ..
cd data
cd media
change snapshot directory permission to all
chmod 777 snapshot
for some reason this unblocks the "unused" file space
I deleted the snapshot directory which is recreated everytime you delete something even though it is turned off, nothing in the directory though
I assume that i am operating in normal mode as guest and snapshot is reserved for root with the file space.
I know virtually nothing about linux and nothing about the inner workings of the RN104 so try this at your own risk
As I said it works for me
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