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Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

tdcrosby
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Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

I have looked all over looking for the right solution for this issue. I entered the following command "du -hxm --max-depth=1 / | sort -h" and get this result

 

...

36      /lib

127    /opt

270    /var

405    /usr

2441  /root

3320  /

 

I have read to look for log files, or any file that seems to be large. But I am not finding any large files. When I ls the /root directory it shows only 2 /data and /Videos.

 

I am only running the Sabnzb+ and Sickbeard apps. 

 

When I run "df -h" here is the results

Screenshot from 2015-09-04 15:42:07.png

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

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StephenB
Guru

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

/dev/md0 should be ~25% full, not 88% full.

 

When I ls -al /root I see

root@RN102:/etc# ls -al /root
total 44
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 28 15:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Aug 24 12:35 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 18297 Sep 3 19:55 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570 Jan 31 2010 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1694 Jul 12 2013 dashboard-status.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Nov 19 2007 .profile
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 9 2013 .ssh

 

No /video or /data stuff.  Can you post what you are seeing?  There really shouldn't be much in /root.  So there could be a clue here.

 

For logs, start by looking in /var/log and its subfolders.

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tdcrosby
Aspirant

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

Screenshot from 2015-09-04 16:45:03.png

Message 3 of 13
StephenB
Guru

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

if you cd \root\data and do an ls -al what do you see?

Same question for \root\Videos

 

Not sure how they got there, but I think they shouldn't be.

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tdcrosby
Aspirant

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

When I cd /root and ls -al I get

 

Screenshot from 2015-09-04 18:28:20.png

 

I don't think they should be there either. Those directories were initiallly set up through the web interface. I didn't create them manually through CLI. 

 

Not sure how to correct this one. 

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StephenB
Guru

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

Are these shares you created?  Or are these folders somehow related to the two add-ons?

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tdcrosby
Aspirant

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

I created the Videos share on the existing data share and then pointed the apps to them. 

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

Well perhaps you got the path wrong.

Perhaps e.g. you needed to configure the path as e.g. /data but instead simply wrote data. Using the home folder for the root user as the working directory it then considered you wanted to use ~/data rather than /data

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StephenB
Guru

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

Well you need to get rid of both of these folders, and I think that will resolve your space problem. (check of course!)

 

I don't use either app, so I'm not sure if you can simply reconfigure them or if you need to uninstall/reinstall them.

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tdcrosby
Aspirant

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

from cd /

Screenshot from 2015-09-04 18:51:37.png

 

from cd /data

Screenshot from 2015-09-04 18:52:52.png

 

from cd /data/Videos

Screenshot from 2015-09-04 18:53:50.png

 

As you can see ... browsing through the /data directory the screens are slightly different. 

 

What would be your recommendation to fix this type of thing?

Message 10 of 13
StephenB
Guru

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

Likely whatever is in /root/Videos needs to be copied to /data/Videos.   Then whatever app is writing to /root/Videos is reset to write to /data/Videos, and  then you delete /root/Videos deleted.

 

I'm not sure what to do about /root/data because I don't know what it is it.

Message 11 of 13
StephenB
Guru

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

Another approach is to uninstall both apps, and delete both /root/data and /root/Videos.  Then reinstall the apps, and set up the target folders again.  

 

BTW, I don't see anything wrong in your last two screen shots.

Message 12 of 13
tdcrosby
Aspirant

Re: Volume: System volume 'root' usage is 88 %

I found the issue. 

 

The directories in the /root directory were not the right ones that is being used by the media server. I just removed both the data and the Videos directories from the /root directory ... end result

 

Screenshot from 2015-09-04 19:26:27.png

 

I wanted to make sure I was correctly setup with where my Videos go, so I created a file in the ~/data/Videos directory and it did not show up in the directory where my Plex server (separate workstation) is pulling the Videos. All is well. thanks for your help.

 

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