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Ger1234
Aspirant
Jul 30, 2017
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Storage NAS gone?

Hello,   I hope someone can help me with my problem. Somehow I lost 92GB of storage in 2 days without copying any files to my NAS (ReadyNAS Duo v2) (I have upgraded the NAS with the latest firmwa...
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  • aks's avatar
    aks
    Aug 13, 2017

    I suggest you use "du -h --max-depth=1 /c/" to investigate where 92GB has gone... should be easy-ish to find I would think.

     

Ger1234's avatar
Ger1234
Aspirant
Aug 13, 2017

Sorry for the late reply, I was on Holiday

 

When I check the free space with SSH it also states all the storage is used by "c" (100% used).

Is there a command to get more details?

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aks
Virtuoso
Aug 13, 2017

I suggest you use "du -h --max-depth=1 /c/" to investigate where 92GB has gone... should be easy-ish to find I would think.

 

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    Ger1234
    Aspirant
    Aug 13, 2017

     

    Thanks, I found it.

    Looks like me (or my wife) made a copy of the entire photo directory to the photo directory.

    With this command I was able to detect the large photos copy

    du --max-depth=1 /c/photos

     

    Thanks for your help.

    • aks's avatar
      aks
      Virtuoso
      Aug 13, 2017

      That's great :)

       

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