NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi All

I have lost some space on my disk-1.

Total is 146.7GB Used is 136.9GB and Free is 2.5GB (makes 139.4GB). So 7.3Gb is unaccounted for.

Where did it go?

Thanks

Ok, this Linux n00b did some searching and I found the answer to my own question.

"The most likely reason is reserved space. When an ext2/3 file system is formated by default 5% is reserved for root. Reserved space is supposed to reduce fragmentation and allow root to login in case the file system becomes 100% used. You can use tune2fs to reduce the amount of reserved space."

Well done I was wondering this myself.

Thanks for the update

Actually, I'm not sure that's it at all. According to this http://www.serverelements.com/info/NASL ... Disk-0.htm there are 0 reserved blocks, so that can't be it. Naslite uses 4K blocks so everything written on the drive will be in 4K increments. If you have 2 blocks and you write 6K of data it will actually occupy 8K of drive space but count as 6K of data. Maybe that's why things may seem a bit off. I think that's perfectly normal.

Hi,

Just a suggestion as I don't know how the contents of the "lost + found" are counted in the space calculations. Did anybody look for files in "Lost + found" ? Maybe some files got broken and were put in lost and found.

Regards

I now have all my space on "Disk-1"

It was due to the 5% being reserved.
I even deleted, recreated and formatted the drive with a 3rd party utility and 5% was still gone.

I removed the 5% reservation by booting into one of the Linux Live cd distros and ran the tune2fs command.
When I placed the hard drive back into the NAS box it showed this:
Total Space 146.7G, Used 32mb, Free 146.7G

Command I used was: tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda1

Cheers

I just formatted a drive from within NASLite and didn't have a problem. Why didn't I do this in the first place

Did you format that drive using NASLite-2 or another distro?