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ReadyNAS reports not enough space
My ReadyNAS 524X reports (data shows a red bar) that there is only 481 GB available out of 8.17 TB of space. I have 4 3 TB drives installed in the unit, using RAID 5. I am running on a Mac. When ...
Sandshark wrote:On the Volumes page of the GUI, you can see if some of that space is taken up by snapshots and you can also use the gear icon to do a balance. But it would be unusual for a balance to free up that much space.
Thank you for your comments, Sandshark. As a matter of fact, in my case, deleting snapshots and rebalancing did free up that much space. I don't know why it worked, but it did. :-)
On the Volumes page of the GUI, you can see if some of that space is taken up by snapshots and you can also use the gear icon to do a balance. But it would be unusual for a balance to free up that much space.
Sandshark wrote:On the Volumes page of the GUI, you can see if some of that space is taken up by snapshots and you can also use the gear icon to do a balance. But it would be unusual for a balance to free up that much space.
Thank you for your comments, Sandshark. As a matter of fact, in my case, deleting snapshots and rebalancing did free up that much space. I don't know why it worked, but it did. :-)
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