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Update Available Volume Space
I have a ReadyNAS 314 and I have 4 3TB drives in it. I have a total 8.2 TB of Storage available to me.
Currently we have had our backups being stored here until the drives reported being full. we relocated some old backups to a new storage location and thought at was well until we logged into the web-panel.
The drives still report as full even though through SSH I can run "du -csh \data\backup" and I show a total of 3.5TB of used space. I have run the scrub option on the volume which took over 24 hours to complete. The log shows it completed without any problems and that a Defrag completed as well. However the volumes are still reporting as full at 8.17TB.
I am having difficulty figuring out how to post under normal topics on this forum. but I need help with this problem. Thank you for any assistance any of you can give me.
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I have ran "btrfs scrub /data/ start" The Scrub Process has begun again and I am watching it from "top" and checking on the status with "btrfs scrub /data/ status" everything seems to be moving along and I will update this post if this resolves my issue.
Currently we have had our backups being stored here until the drives reported being full. we relocated some old backups to a new storage location and thought at was well until we logged into the web-panel.
The drives still report as full even though through SSH I can run "du -csh \data\backup" and I show a total of 3.5TB of used space. I have run the scrub option on the volume which took over 24 hours to complete. The log shows it completed without any problems and that a Defrag completed as well. However the volumes are still reporting as full at 8.17TB.
I am having difficulty figuring out how to post under normal topics on this forum. but I need help with this problem. Thank you for any assistance any of you can give me.
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I have ran "btrfs scrub /data/ start" The Scrub Process has begun again and I am watching it from "top" and checking on the status with "btrfs scrub /data/ status" everything seems to be moving along and I will update this post if this resolves my issue.
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- Ok I have moved everything off of my NAS. I can't perform the OS reinstall since the display screen on my device is not working. I can't see the prompts. Lucky Me.
I want to just format the Volume right now. I have X-Raid setup with 5 x 3TB drives. The Destroy option is grayed out. What can I do at this point. - If the LCD screen on your unit has failed you should contact support.
If you want to start over, you can also unformat the disks. One way to do this is plug them into a Windows PC (USB or Sata). Right-click on computer, and select Manage. Then scroll down to the disk section, right click on the volumes on the disks(s) and delete them.
Once unformatted, you can put them all back into the NAS and it will do a factory install. - I have backuped all of my data. I downgraded the X-Raid to flex-raid and destroyed the disk as it was still reporting full. I then rebuilt the Volume and upgraded it to X-Raid. The system began to "Rebuild" all of my data and I didn't want that. I wanted this to be empty and fresh.
I followed the suggestions on this thread to wipe the drives and have the ReadyNAS rebuild the drives. The ReadyNAS hangs on bootup at loading the initrd.gs
Since I can't see the display screen I can't reload the OS. What are the steps to Force a reload from command prompt? - If the disks are unformatted, the NAS has to rebuild.
Are you saying you can access the NAS with ssh? - yes I am using SSH.
Although the drives are not unformatted. when I slaved them I formatted them to ntfs to make sure the data was written over and would not come back. I can slave the disks again and delete the partition and then plug them back in and see what happens. - It sounds like you reformatted some of the drives, but not all of them.
If you want to start over, you need to start from scratch - with a factory install, and a fresh NAS setup. - I wiped all of the drives. There are 4 x 3TB drives in my system not 5 drives like I stated before.
Also once I deleted the partitions and rebooted the device it came up without a problem. Looks like a fresh install had to go through the setup process again. Only thing I am curious about is the system says its rebuilding the data again?! Is this rebuilding my old data that is now gone or building a data structure. It say it will take about 8 hours to complete. - I believe it is simply rebuilding an empty RAID data volume. That does take a while - RAID is below the file system level, so it takes the same amount of time even if the volume is completely empty of files.
- Thank you for all of your help StephenB. Your knowledge and contributions to this forum are staggering. You have helped increase my knowledge and understanding of these devices and I am very grateful.
I will keep you posted but it seems I have the problem solved. I turned off Continuous Protection for each of the data folders. This should stop the snapshot process correct?
Yes.dslewiston wrote: ... I turned off Continuous Protection for each of the data folders. This should stop the snapshot process correct?
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