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USB drive no longer recognised
I have been connecting the same external USB drive to my ReadyNAS to perform backups and now after the latest firmware update to 6.10.10 it is now no longer recognised. This now makes it impossible f...
tonymazz31 wrote:admin@yallara:~$ df / -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 4.0G 4.0G 0 100% /
Yes, this is the problem - a completely full OS partition.
Do you know how to find the largest files?
You can try moving into the top level folders - for instance cd /var
Then try this: du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10
Hi Sandshark , thanks for your reply.
Can you please direct me to some instructions on how I can free up the space in the OS partition?
tonymazz31 wrote:
Can you please direct me to some instructions on how I can free up the space in the OS partition?
The first step is to confirm that is the problem.
Is SSH enabled on the NAS?
Hi StephenB , yes SSH was enabled
tonymazz31 wrote:
Hi StephenB , yes SSH was enabled
Then try connecting with ssh.
If that connects, then enter
df / -h df / -iStephenB I logged on to SSH, here is the output;
admin@yallara:~$ df / -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 4.0G 4.0G 0 100% /
Looks like this is the cause of all my issues?
admin@yallara:~$ df / -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/md0 65536 15363 50173 24% /
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