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System volume root's usage is 89%. This condition should not occur in normal conditions.
Hi All, I keep receiving an error message "System volume root's usage is 89%. This condition should not occur in normal conditions. Contact technical support." After some research, I found ro...
I thought I had solved this issue with a factory reset of the NAS. Now instead of "root" volume filling the system states, "Less than 5% of volume media's capacity is free. Performance on volume media is degraded. To improve performance, you must add capacity."
Media capacity?
Tthere is an issue with the antivirus temporarily fills up the volume. In this situation, the root volume is called 'media' in the logs. You can find multiple threads about this here. Workaround while waiting for the fix in future firmware:
1. Gracefully reboot the unit.
2. Disable he antivirus.
3. Gracefully reboot the unit.
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