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bpina
Dec 30, 2020Aspirant
ReadyNAS RR4312 - /dev/md0 partition full
Hi guys, I cannot have access to a ReadyNAS WEBGUI. After entering the user's credentials I get "ReadyNAS Admin Page is offline". But I'm able to access it via ssh session and I noticed that "/d...
StephenB
Dec 30, 2020Guru - Experienced User
bpina wrote:
Going a little bit deeper I found that "gencache.tdb" file in "/var/cache/samba" directory is the one occuping most of the disk space.
How big is it? On my own NAS it is about 650 KiB.
root@NAS:/var/cache/samba# ls -als total 652 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40 Aug 21 2012 . 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104 Feb 4 2020 .. 652 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 667648 Dec 30 15:44 gencache.tdb 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Nov 9 2016 printing root@NAS:/var/cache/samba#
You should be able to delete the file, but you might need to stop Samba first.
bpina
Dec 31, 2020Aspirant
Hi,
Its size is around 1,6 GB.
At this point, I don't want to delete the file. I'd prefer another workaround like clean the file ou reduce its size.
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