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cmorgan
02-20-2012, 03:47 PM
My Javelin is new (4 weeks). It has 4 X 1Tb drives (2700gb in raid 5). I'm using Acronis to back up primary drives, Dashboard to backup data.
My drive reached 95% full yesterday with multiple backups. Used Acronis to delete 900gb of Acronis backups, web interface to delete Dashboard backups.
Javelin is still pinned at 95%, but cant find files to delete.
I used check file system, it shows a yellow stripe on icon. Attempted to recover file under raid management, but modify, create and recover tabs are blacked out.
I dont mind losing the data if I have to rebuild the raid array but need to know the easiest way to rebuild the array as well as the best way to delete data from server as I go forward. Any suggestions are appreciated

cmorgan
02-20-2012, 08:32 PM
I found a big part of my problem, deleted files were in recyclers.

Patriot_MA
02-27-2012, 06:22 PM
Hey Cmorgan,

That's a good find. Sometimes the recycling can be hidden and it may cause some inconsistencies with reformatting. I find that erasing the volume and the reformatting cleans out the whole partition and starts fresh.