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kokomodrums
Sep 03, 2013Aspirant
System volume 'root' usage is 100%
I've got a client with a Readynas 102, I just started getting this error message in my email today, every ten minutes: System volume 'root' usage is 100 %. This condition should not occur in normal...
kokomodrums
Sep 13, 2013Aspirant
Fixed that problem, caused a bigger one. I'll let you see what I did....
So it appears that the log folder was totally full. So instead of being smart and deleting the logs from Frontview (or w/e the web interface is called in OS 6), I decided to try and be smart and delete all the logs from the shell...
It worked. But, it deleted all the subdirectories in the /var/log folder, which are required by ReadyNAS to write logs period. I went and tried turning on email alerts again and kept getting an error that the log/*whatever* directory didn't exist...
So, can anyone running 6.1.1 give me a list of all the subdirectories of /var/log in a clean install??? I really don't want to do a factory reset for such a minor error...
root@nas-server:~# du -csh /var
3.6G /var
3.6G total
root@nas-server:~# du -csh /var/*
4.0K /var/agentx
46M /var/backups
34M /var/cache
4.0K /var/cores
4.0K /var/ftp
38M /var/lib
4.0K /var/local
0 /var/lock
3.5G /var/log
4.0K /var/mail
12K /var/netatalk
4.0K /var/opt
368K /var/readynasd
0 /var/run
16K /var/spool
4.0K /var/tmp
8.0K /var/www
3.6G total
So it appears that the log folder was totally full. So instead of being smart and deleting the logs from Frontview (or w/e the web interface is called in OS 6), I decided to try and be smart and delete all the logs from the shell...
root@nas-server:~# rm -rf /var/log/*
root@nas-server:~# du -csh /var/*
4.0K /var/agentx
46M /var/backups
11M /var/cache
4.0K /var/cores
4.0K /var/ftp
38M /var/lib
4.0K /var/local
0 /var/lock
12K /var/log
4.0K /var/mail
12K /var/netatalk
4.0K /var/opt
368K /var/readynasd
0 /var/run
16K /var/spool
4.0K /var/tmp
8.0K /var/www
93M total
It worked. But, it deleted all the subdirectories in the /var/log folder, which are required by ReadyNAS to write logs period. I went and tried turning on email alerts again and kept getting an error that the log/*whatever* directory didn't exist...
So, can anyone running 6.1.1 give me a list of all the subdirectories of /var/log in a clean install??? I really don't want to do a factory reset for such a minor error...
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