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Size of files/folders vs "size on disk" MASSIVELY different?
Hi there, I'm on my NVX via a windows 8.1 machine, just going through some image folders and tidying up a little, when I realised there is a simply massive disparity between the "size" and the "size o...
- I ran again the volume consistency check manually and it found volume scan was needed, so rebooted with the vol scan, it reported fixed problems...re-ran the scrub - that finished good in approx 7hrs. Problem still there on file count....so I installed TreeSize Pro - to find out in the 100+ folders - which one tripped the size, and low & behold - found the single file showing 16TB in size (yes, impossible on a NAS with only 2.6TB). It was a quickbooks file. Zero clue how, but I opened the file, backed it up, resaved and now the file size reports normal at 58mb. Whew!!! TG for treesize pro finding exactly what file. The wonders of why or how this can happen, but guess any corrupt file can produce strange results.
I am sure CP now will be happy I am not trying to push 17.1TB of data ...thru our unlimited data plan. :)
I have multiple shares, just this one is the largest. I navigated to the share, did the du -sh, it shows 167G, I did the same at the root and it matches from the df - which is 630G.
I did the du -shD at the root folder - and the response was: 630G
Doing the same at the share - and the response was: 167G
Is it possible the readynas does not handle this many files/folders? I would be surprised, but something it tripping this up. I have the room, I may copy all the files from this share, to a new share - then try a directory size check....I am also going to try to get a directory size from a windows 7 PC - maybe 2003 server does not like it.
Note to add - I did a directory check for size on the snap folder - it does the same thing from my 2003 server - shows bogus 15TB total size.
I went to a win7 pc, highlighted all the folders in the share to get properties - same issue, after it gets to about 100gb, and around 770,000 files, it jumps rapidly to 105gb, 110gb, 130gb then 15.1TB in a matter of seconds after letting it count for about 10 minutes.
I did the du -shD at the root folder - and the response was: 630G
Doing the same at the share - and the response was: 167G
Is it possible the readynas does not handle this many files/folders? I would be surprised, but something it tripping this up. I have the room, I may copy all the files from this share, to a new share - then try a directory size check....I am also going to try to get a directory size from a windows 7 PC - maybe 2003 server does not like it.
Note to add - I did a directory check for size on the snap folder - it does the same thing from my 2003 server - shows bogus 15TB total size.
I went to a win7 pc, highlighted all the folders in the share to get properties - same issue, after it gets to about 100gb, and around 770,000 files, it jumps rapidly to 105gb, 110gb, 130gb then 15.1TB in a matter of seconds after letting it count for about 10 minutes.
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