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Strange Warning: Less than 5% of volume media's capacity is free.
I got a strange Warning ofrom my RN102 after upgrading to ReadyNAS 6.6.1.
"Volume: Less than 5% of volume media's capacity is free."
When I browse the sytem via the Web interface I see that I have about 75 percent unused space (out of 8 TB). Next day, the logs show all is OK.
Anyone can enlignten us why the syetm is giving such a warning? Perhaps I have not deleted the logs for a while?
Good day to all.
I. Konuk
On another thread, Netgear said they'd be starting a 6.7.0 beta very soon to roll out AV fixes.
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Others have reported the NAS incorrectly reporting a problem with a share when it's the OS partition that's almost full, and that sounds like your problem. There are several things that can cause it. But you need to check before it gets completely full and you are unable to access Frontview.
Currently, the only way to check/fix a filling OS partition is via SSH (and tech support mode, I thnk) and some knowlege of Unix or specific directions. I have put in a suggestion that better tools be provided for preventing and fixing this issue. There are a number of existing message chains on this subject.
I am getting this warning regularly for the past couple of days on my RN214: "System volume root's usage is 95%. This condition should not occur in normal conditions. Contact technical support." Is this the same thing? ( I am also getting the less than 5% free warning).
I was getting it on OS v6.6.0 and after upgrading to v6.6.1
I have linux-dash installed and I see this:
I can see that it is /dev/md0 that is reporting to be full, what can I do about it? I am OK with SSHing and Linux command line, but I don't know what commands I need to use.
Can anyone help please?
Regards,
Paul
You can use du to locate where the space is used. This situation (full root) can occur for different reasons, most common ones are applications installed from backend (like mysql or crashplan), log files that aren't rotated (added by apps), etc.
1. cd into the path you want to analyze first
2. du tells you where the space is used
3. cd into biggest folder
4. du
5. Repeat until you find the folder containing the files, then use ls
# cd / # du -d1 -hx . -> var is the biggest # cd var # du -d1 -hx . -> log is the biggest # cd log # du -d1 -hx . -> current folder only is big # ls -alh
Hi, having yellow codes come up with low media capacity. Todays codes pasted below. Helpful information is that system is updated to 6.6.1 and perform USB backups to 2T Toshiba drive. You can see that antivirus has been updated recently. I'm having difficulty getting scans from our network printer/copier/scanner. Is this related to the low media capacity errors? How can I fix it?
NielsenNAS
Tue Jan 24 2017 10:27:14 Volume: Less than 10% of volume media's capacity is free. Performance on volume media is degraded. To improve performance, you must add capacity. Tue Jan 24 2017 10:17:10 Volume: Less than 30% of volume media's capacity is free. NETGEAR recommends that you add capacity to maintain current performance levels. Continuous protection snapshots will be deleted when volume free space is less than 5%. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:59:20 System: ReadyNASOS background service started. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:59:16 System: ReadyNASOS service or process was restarted. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:35:56 System: Antivirus scanner definition file was updated to 57.22941. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:35:44 System: ReadyNASOS background service started. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:35:42 System: External storage device connected. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:31:31 System: The system is rebooting. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:18:58 System: Host name was changed to NielsenNAS. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:09:15 System: External storage device connected. Tue Jan 24 2017 8:08:00 Volume: Less than 30% of volume media's capacity is free. NETGEAR recommends that you add capacity to maintain current performance levels. Continuous protection snapshots will be deleted when volume free space is less than 5%. Is the volume actually over 90% full?
If not: There's some indication from other posters that suggests the new AV might be misbehaving. You might try turning it off for a day and see if the system behaves better.
Hi Steve, just under 2.38 TB available. I can try shutting the system down overnight tonight. However, I have unplugged it and replugged it in this morning...still got the low media capacity codes.
I am having the same or similar problem:
[17/03/03 09:02:09 WET] warning:volume:LOGMSG_VOLUME_USAGE_NOTICE Less than 30% of volume data's capacity is free. NETGEAR recommends that you add capacity to maintain current performance levels. Continuous protection snapshots will be deleted when volume free space is less than 5%.
[17/03/03 09:02:40 WET] notice:system:LOGMSG_ANTIVIRUS_DEF_UPDATE Antivirus scanner definition file was updated to 57.23158.
[17/03/03 09:02:29 WET] info:system:LOGMSG_START_READYNASD ReadyNASOS background service started.
[17/03/03 19:57:53 WET] warning:volume:LOGMSG_VOLUME_USAGE_CRITICAL Less than 5% of volume media's capacity is free. Performance on volume media is degraded. To improve performance, you must add capacity.My ReadyNAS is also a whole lot slower. I will disable the AV to see if it makes a difference.
Hi Roel1,
You could also consider updating to the BETA firmware.
ReadyNASOS 6.7.0-T180 (Beta 3)
Regards,
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