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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:
I have 4 x 2TB SATA drives for a total of 5.23TB storage, of which 857GB is currently used, which is about 17% used, nowhere near the 84%. All other system indicators seem to be green or normal.
What could be causing this error message and is this a cause for concern?
This evening I received this log alert:
Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 84 %. This condition should not occur in normal conditions. Please contact technical support
I have 4 x 2TB SATA drives for a total of 5.23TB storage, of which 857GB is currently used, which is about 17% used, nowhere near the 84%. All other system indicators seem to be green or normal.
What could be causing this error message and is this a cause for concern?
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- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredThe 4GB OS partition is getting full. Yes this is a cause for concern.
So you have any add-ons installed?
Are you using Plex Media Server on your NAS? - kalayl1AspirantThe following add-ins are installed:
Plex Media Server
Transmission
Is there a way to remedy this? - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredWere you using Plex Media Server?
In the UI for Plex Media Server you can set the directory where Plex stores temporary files for transcodes to /apps/plexmediaserver/tmp - kalayl1AspirantAaah, I get it.
That's great, thank you so much! - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee RetiredAfter making the change, reboot the NAS, download your logs zip file and check disk_usage.log to see how full the 4GB OS partition is.
- 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! - StephenBGuru - Experienced UserI have flex and the itunes server running, and my RN102 usage is about 76%.
Check Crashplan's cache size (/usr/local/crashplan/cache). Probably the guide should be revised, telling folks to put the cache on the data volume. StephenB wrote:
Check Crashplan's cache size (/usr/local/crashplan/cache). Probably the guide should be revised, telling folks to put the cache on the data volume.
Yep, did that and it's about 300 MB. Deleting it will cause the cache to be rebuilt though, but it should be smaller at least.
Still it would be better to have this on a non root partition - I agree.
Can't seem to find where CrashPlan sets the log location though.. will dig in a bit more.
Edit: Same thing with the log files in /usr/local/crashplan/log too. Should be moved to non-root partition.- Hi, I have the same problem on crashplan with the cache and log file getting me up to 87% useage on the root partition
How can i move these to a different location? - I've been through all the obvious settings and can't seem to find where to do this
note the backup files already go to a \Crashplan folder
many thanks in advance
Steve - StephenBGuru - Experienced UserThere is a variable in /usr/local/crashplan/conf/my.service.xml that holds the cache location. I haven't tried changing it, so I don't know what would happen if you did. I don't see anything about the logs.
You could also try creating a soft link to the /c/ volume somewhere.
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