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jwilkinson84
Nov 02, 2018Aspirant
System volume 'root' usage is 100 %
I was wondering what can I delete under the /var/ folder? its taking up around 700MB of space and my admin page is not loading anymore.
StephenB
Nov 02, 2018Guru - Experienced User
How full is the OS partition? There are other causes for your issue, and it seems likely that a full OS is not your issue.
What apps do you have installed on the NAS? Can you post the results of du /var/lib -h -d 1
jwilkinson84
Nov 02, 2018Aspirant
/Dev/md0 is maxed out at 100%.
It looks like /Var/Lib is only 528M. The only apps i have is Plex at 2.6GB and Tautulli at around 300M
- StephenBNov 03, 2018Guru - Experienced User
You have some stuff in /var/lib that I don't, but the main difference in the size is in clamav - I have that turned off.
If you aren't seeing where the space has gone, then it likely is hiding underneath a mount point.
Try mount /dev/md0 /mnt and then look in /mnt. Then you'll only see what is actually stored there. When finished, do a cd // and then umount /mnt
- jwilkinson84Nov 03, 2018Aspirant
Not sure what else I can delete from here. I did nuke that /var/calmav and im down to 89%. Im assuming doing an OS reinstall would be too risky with that little of space still. The admin page is working now at least, but I would like to get the space down some more.
- StephenBNov 03, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Your folder numbers don't add up to your total, so you are missing something.
Have you tried using du /mnt -ah -d 1 ?
Also, have you used ls /mnt -al, to see if there are hidden files in the root folder that are taking up space? There are some hidden files, but they should all be small
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