Way to analyze drive space usage?

[BigFatGuy]

My drive space usage is higher than I expect... and my manual poking around doesn't show anything unusual.

I've got the recycle bin set to empty every week, and I've emptied it manually recently.

I have several shares, I don't really want to make a single share that encompasses everything on the drive so I can use the windows drive analysis tools.

Is there a way, in the TNAS control panel, to analyze drive space usage by folder/file type/etc?

[TMnick]

My drive space usage is higher than I expect... and my manual poking around doesn't show anything unusual.

I've got the recycle bin set to empty every week, and I've emptied it manually recently.

I have several shares, I don't really want to make a single share that encompasses everything on the drive so I can use the windows drive analysis tools.

Is there a way, in the TNAS control panel, to analyze drive space usage by folder/file type/etc?

You can view the usage details by following these steps: Control Panel > Volume > more > Usage Details

[Gremlin]

And, when following the previous guidance, you find excessive usage attributed to "other", it will quite probably be 'Snapshots' of one form or another - possibly orphaned.

[BigFatGuy]

I don't have snapshots configured, but I did have Duple and some kind of Cloudsync set up for various experiments.

Looking at how long it's taking to uninstall cloudsync, this might be the issue.

Many thanks.

[BigFatGuy]

Just for my own edification, is there a way to get more granular information out of that "usage" screen? Something that will tell me what the 10G of data in "other" actually are?

[IrisLi]

Thank you for your feedback!
This requirement has been fed back to the product team and will be implemented in the future if it passes the review.

[BigFatGuy]

Thank you.

In the meantime: I've uninstalled all the un-needed backup utilities, but I still have 10G of "other" files that I cannot find or delete.

What is the next step to recover my empty drive space?

[Gremlin]

I don't the answer. I have more than that usage on most of my volumes. Should we really be worried about 10 or even 50GB in a total of multiple TB of storage?

[IrisLi]

Use tools like Putty to log in to the NAS command line terminal.
Link to guide:
viewtopic.php?t=2350
Enter the following command:

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du -sh /Volume1/*

[BigFatGuy]

I don't the answer. I have more than that usage on most of my volumes. Should we really be worried about 10 or even 50GB in a total of multiple TB of storage?

I apologize. I typed badly.

10TB is tied up.