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TheDurb
Dec 31, 2019Aspirant
ReadyNas 2304 Backup to ReadyNas2304 - Disk Consumption Differences
I have had a RR2304 in service for over two years, configured with 4x8TB WD Red drives with a single volume configured in RAID6, and two shares. Both shares are configured to snapshot daily. This i...
StephenB
Jan 01, 2020Guru - Experienced User
TheDurb wrote:
When I use the GUI to calculate the individual share sizes, the two shares on the production NAS total 8.7TB, but the NAS is calculating the consumption at 6.97TB. However, the consumption is being reported to windows as 6.97TB.
This is on the backup NAS?
I suggest doing a balance, and see if that resolves it. Space usage is a complicated subject with BTRFS, and it is possible that 8.7TB is somehow allocated, but only 6.97TB is actually used. A balance should take care of that.
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