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steveoelliott
May 25, 2017Luminary
ReadyNAS OS6 6.7.3 Upgrade - Users With Full Root
Hi all, I haven't yet upgraded to 6.7.3 from 6.7.1 but I've seen numerous threads on here regarding the system failing to boot due a full root volume. My question to the Netgear team is wheth...
- May 27, 2017
It was an issue with 6.7.3. It mainly affected systems where the root volume was fully allocated even if very little was actually used.
If you have updated to 6.7.3 and ran into this issue please try USB Boot Recovery with ReadyNAS OS 6.7.4 which is now available!
If you have not yet upgraded please upgrade to 6.7.4 rather than 6.7.3. If your system has already been fixed I would still suggest updating to 6.7.4 the normal way using the web admin GUI.
steveoelliott
May 25, 2017Luminary
Let's hope it gets approved, i'll give it my vote now.
Knowing what we know now, it would seem remiss to omit this step.
mdgm-ntgr
May 26, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
There'll be a fix for this issue in 6.7.4. The root volume was fully allocated but not fully in use.
- steveoelliottMay 26, 2017Luminary
Thanks...
Can you confirm whether this is a generic volume issue that could affect any release / upgrade or something within 6.7.3 that triggers the volume to become fully allocated.
Nevertheless, I believe some basic automated health checks before performing the upgrade would prevent issues like this arrising.
- vandermerweMay 26, 2017Master
I'd also like to know whether to defer upgrading other units with 6.7.3 even if the current root partition looks ok?
- mdgm-ntgrMay 27, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
It was an issue with 6.7.3. It mainly affected systems where the root volume was fully allocated even if very little was actually used.
If you have updated to 6.7.3 and ran into this issue please try USB Boot Recovery with ReadyNAS OS 6.7.4 which is now available!
If you have not yet upgraded please upgrade to 6.7.4 rather than 6.7.3. If your system has already been fixed I would still suggest updating to 6.7.4 the normal way using the web admin GUI.
- steveoelliottMay 27, 2017Luminary
OK Thanks... This is why I always defer upgrading for at least a month. I let others test for me. On a business system, running the latest and greatest isn't always the most stable.
Please can you advise what you mean by fully allocated vs fully used? If I remember correctly the root volume has 4GB allocated to it by default.
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