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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
StephenB 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% /
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
Given the problems with the USB drive, it may not be the largest files that are the issue, but start there. If something did go wrong and files you intended to copy to the USB drive went to the mount point instead, there may be a large number of small files there. They would be located in a folder in the form /media/USB_HDD_X. Note that when you check there, make sure no USB drive is connected so you aren't looking at that drive's contents.
I've seen the problem with files going to the mount point posted (and resolved) here a couple times, but I don't believe anyone knows exactly how it happens. It's likely that the USB drive connection gets interrupted but the drive is not unmounted by the OS, but I have no idea why the OS would not unmount it unless it's just a matter of too little time.
Thanks StephenB for all your help, I deleted the syslog and daemon.log files in the /var/log folder and rebooted, OS partition no longer at 100%.
Apologies for assuming it was the latest firmware that was causing all my issues.
tonymazz31 wrote:
I deleted the syslog and daemon.log files in the /var/log folder and rebooted, OS partition no longer at 100%.
How much free space are you seeing now?
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