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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...

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StephenB
Feb 01, 2017
On another thread, Netgear said they'd be starting a 6.7.0 beta very soon to roll out AV fixes.

rick_heinig

Aspirant

Jan 24, 2017

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%.

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 24, 2017
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.
- rick_heinig
  Aspirant
  Jan 24, 2017
  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.
- ikonuk
  Guide
  Jan 24, 2017
  StephenB wrote:
  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.
  StephenB:
  
  I have received two definition updates (one yesterday and one this morning), so far so good. NETGEAR may have resolved the issue. Let us wait few days and see.
  
  I. Konuk
  - rick_heinig
    Aspirant
    Jan 24, 2017
    Hi Konuk, is this message in my logs pertaining to the system updating my netgear? "System: ReadyNASOS background service started"