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Best practice for rearranging large directories
Situation: I have two large Shares (one is about 4TB, the other about 2TB) on this ReadyNAS with four 8TB drives in a RAID5 X-RAID configuration. Of the available 23TB, about 15TB are free. The large...
Hi. After getting the feedback that running defrag might not have been wise, I was hesitant to do anything else until someone said "Do Balance".
Anyway, I just ran Balance and it took barely a second or two. But there's no change to the amount of free space.
Thanks again.
Balance didn't complete then. I can take a look in your logs to spot where that missing space is, if you like.
Go to System > Logs > Download logs. This will download a zip file containing the logs. Upload this file to Google Drive, Dropbox or similar. PM me the link to download it along with the name of the share that you deleted.
Cheers
Thank you for your gracious offer -- and to all here who have provided assistance -- but there's news:
Rebooting solved the problem!
The ReadyNAS runs 24/7 and the last time it was restarted was several months ago, long before this issue began. After the rebalance didn't seem to really do anything (and if it actually ran at all, it did so in milliseconds), I decided to try a simple restart.
And now the chart says:
data 7.2 TBSnapshots 94 GB
Free Space 14.6 TBThe problem is fixed. Thank you again to you all for your suggestions and support.
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