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p5taylor
Jan 16, 2018Tutor
System volume root's usage is 84%. This condition should not occur under normal conditions. Contact
Please help....
System volume root's usage is 84%. This condition should not occur under normal conditions. Contact technical support.
I keep getting this error, I have a small ammount of knowledge with linux using putty, it is slowly increasing in size i have thought about resetting but i have to much data on the drives is there a way to remove them reset and then rebuild.
root@Home-Server:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 4.0K 10M 1% /dev
/dev/md0 3.7G 3.1G 420M 89% /
tmpfs 1009M 0 1009M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1009M 620K 1008M 1% /run
tmpfs 505M 1.1M 504M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1009M 0 1009M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/md127 1.9T 610G 1.3T 33% /data
/dev/md127 1.9T 610G 1.3T 33% /apps
/dev/md127 1.9T 610G 1.3T 33% /home
root@Home-Server:/# du -sh *
0 1
7.3G apps
6.0M bin
4.0K boot
root@Home-Server:/# btrfs fi show /data
Label: '116548d8:data' uuid: b78d3198-a934-4e9e-8249-3986dc467d7f
Total devices 1 FS bytes used 606.88GiB
devid 1 size 1.81TiB used 612.07GiB path /dev/md127
btrfs fi df /data
root@Home-Server:/# btrfs fi df /data
Data, single: total=607.01GiB, used=604.98GiB
System, DUP: total=32.00MiB, used=96.00KiB
Metadata, DUP: total=2.50GiB, used=1.90GiB
GlobalReserve, single: total=512.00MiB, used=0.00B
Apps installed: linux - dash, LogAnaylser, Recoll
Thanks in advance for your help.
p5taylor wrote:Running firmware V6.9.1, I have now also un-install all 3 apps that i had installed come down from 84% to 83%. Is there any way to reset the whole system to factory default and save my data on the hard drives if i remove them?
Support knows how to rebuild the OS from scratch w/o touching the data volume, but I don't.
p5taylor wrote:
248M cache
2.1G libLook further into here. My cache is ~50M, and lib is 384M. Everthing else looks reasonablely close.
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- ElfDAspirant
You can use:
du -xhd1 /
and then work your way to find the file using up space, it's likely a log file or database file related to some app that's installed.
Full root is not cause for alarm in terms of data loss, it's a separate volume and if you can't figure out what it is I would recommend contacting support
- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
ElfD wrote:
Full root is not cause for alarm in terms of data loss, it's a separate volume and if you can't figure out what it is I would recommend contacting support
Paid support is certainly a good option for this. Although there is little risk of data loss, if you don't address it promptly the NAS can become unresponsive (either the web ui, or file explorer access, or both).
It might not be a log - what apps do you have installed?
- p5taylorTutor
Apps installed: linux - dash, LogAnaylser, Recoll
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