Brand new built 8TB Server - 588GB USED ! - Freenas

Jakeee

Jakeee

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I just built a 8tb server with Freenas bootable usb and it says 7.16tb Capacity, 588GB used ? I'm really confused as there is nothing on it !?

Any ideas why I used 588gb on nothing ?
 
The main issue is you don't understand how manufacturers list their drive capacities.

They use 1000, 1000000, 1000000000, and OSes use 1024 instead.
There really is nothing on it, as the space never existed in the first place.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
The main issue is you don't understand how manufacturers list their drive capacities.

They use 1000, 1000000, 1000000000, and OSes use 1024 instead.
There really is nothing on it, as the space never existed in the first place.
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I don't understand, check image. There is nothing across the 8tb except being formatted, OS is on the USB.
 
I withdraw my first answer, and that picture leaves me rather bewildered.
I'll have a check through some things, seems an exceptionally large amount of space 'used'.

There isn't another partition of that size that can't be read and thus is classed as used space?
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
I withdraw my first answer, and that picture leaves me rather bewildered.
I'll have a check through some things, seems an exceptionally large amount of space 'used'.

There isn't another partition of that size that can't be read and thus is classed as used space?
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Here's some details that might help,

I use 4 X Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache (WD20EARS)

OS is Freenas 7 (The latest one before 8) and I followed this guide to get it up and running (But instead of mirrored, I used software raid0 + also enabled Advanced Format)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqGHKKIK48
 
Do you have SSH running on FreeNas? If so SSH into the box and post the output of the command "df -hT" then change into the directory where the drives are mounted and run the command "du -h" which will show you what is using space.
 
tntcoder said:
Do you have SSH running on FreeNas? If so SSH into the box and post the output of the command "df -hT" then change into the directory where the drives are mounted and run the command "du -h" which will show you what is using space.
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You could also modify the "du -h" command to be "du -chs *" which gives a breakdown of which folders contain the usage, with a total at the end.
 
blueacid said:
You could also modify the "du -h" command to be "du -chs *" which gives a breakdown of which folders contain the usage, with a total at the end.
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I did, there is nothing, only a couple of gigs worth of freenas files.

I've just reformatted my usb to Freenas 8 to try a fresh install for the fix. Is there a way of combining the 4 x 2tb into one storage area without raid 0 or jbod? I don't like the idea of all the stress raid would put on my drives and the risk of failure is too high if I fill it with 8tb worth of data !

Also how do I delete a raid0 partition on freenas to start fresh, never used this before?
 
You can use LVM to achieve 'one' storage area but you're still at risk of losing data if one of the drives fail.
 
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