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rsumanraju
Aspirant
Apr 04, 2018

Unable to free up space in drive even after deletion of snapshot data in Netgear Nas1002

I have gone through all previous treads on deletion of Snapshot data in this forum. I tried to delete previous snapshots in Admin Page-> Shares -> Snapshots -> Deleted snapshots in each folder. But t...
free up Disk Space
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 04, 2018

Did you try then running a balance, followed by a scrub?

 

One option is to back up your data, do a factory default, reconfigure the NAS, and then restore your data from the backup.

 

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rsumanraju
Aspirant
Apr 04, 2018

Thank you for your reply, I have just completed Balance and started scrub, Will give you an update once its done. I want to do factory default as last option. As i do not have 1 TB drive to take backup :-)

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    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Apr 05, 2018

    Waiting till the data volume is pretty much 100% full before dealing with the problem is far from ideal. If there are snapshots that need upgrading the snapshot upgrade process would require some free space I would think.

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