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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 kno...
- Jan 16, 2018
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.
ElfD
Jan 16, 2018Aspirant
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
- StephenBJan 16, 2018Guru - 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?
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