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Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 01 Dec 2024, 08:58
by 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?
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 01 Dec 2024, 14:48
by TMnick
BigFatGuy wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024, 08:58
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
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 01 Dec 2024, 22:58
by 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.
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 02 Dec 2024, 04:26
by 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.
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 02 Dec 2024, 04:27
by 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?
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 02 Dec 2024, 16:38
by 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.
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 02 Dec 2024, 20:55
by 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?
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 02 Dec 2024, 21:53
by 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?
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 02 Dec 2024, 22:27
by 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:
Re: Way to analyze drive space usage?
Posted: 03 Dec 2024, 07:01
by BigFatGuy
Gremlin wrote: ↑02 Dec 2024, 21:53
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.