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kalayl1
Jun 17, 2013Aspirant
Volume 'root' usage is 84%
I've had my ReadyNAS 314 for almost three weeks now and have been mostly having a good experience. This evening I received this log alert: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 84 %. This con...
mountaindude
Aug 14, 2013Tutor
I also got this warning, and got rid of it by deleting some log files in /var/log, together with deleting some large files sitting in /root.
That got the usage down to 72%, and after having looked at the size of all directories residing in all folders on /root, I cannot find any more large files/directories.
So... I am missing something, or is the normal value of usage on /root on the order of ca 70%?
Does anyone have a new NAS, without any add-ons installed, that can do a "df -h" and report back what percentage of / is used?
Btw, I am running a RN312 here. Installed CrashPlan on it (which requires Java), so some of / space will be taken there. I still would not expect space to run out that soon..
Thanks!
That got the usage down to 72%, and after having looked at the size of all directories residing in all folders on /root, I cannot find any more large files/directories.
So... I am missing something, or is the normal value of usage on /root on the order of ca 70%?
Does anyone have a new NAS, without any add-ons installed, that can do a "df -h" and report back what percentage of / is used?
Btw, I am running a RN312 here. Installed CrashPlan on it (which requires Java), so some of / space will be taken there. I still would not expect space to run out that soon..
Thanks!
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