Dust-Mite Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 DrivePool is stating it is using 14.7TB of 20.0TB, however CloudDrive is stating it is using 19TB of 20TB. Is there a way of releasing the unused space on the cloud drive? It is a network share. If I open the CloudDrive everything is inside the covefs folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Dust-Mite Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 I was able to get another drive into the machine with the failing drive and remove the failing drive. It was then possible to resize the cloud drive down which reduced the usage on the second DrivePool. Thank you Christopher. Will be changing how I size my cloud drive from now on to mitigate the issue of this happening in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 DrivePool shows the amount of files that are using data on the drive, basically. CloudDrive shows the data, not files that is used. Deleted files or files that have had their data moved will leave data behind and increase the used size on CloudDrive. So this is normal, and okay. However, the solution for this would be to zero out the unused data. But ... especially in your case, Im not sure if that's worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dust-Mite Posted August 7, 2021 Author Share Posted August 7, 2021 I am needing to clear up the space so I can remove a disk on the network drive due to scanner warning of errors. But all this has done is max out all the other drives and not emptied the disk identified by scanner. https://i.imgur.com/EHlqpZu.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dust-Mite Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share Posted August 11, 2021 On 8/5/2021 at 10:34 PM, Christopher (Drashna) said: DrivePool shows the amount of files that are using data on the drive, basically. CloudDrive shows the data, not files that is used. Deleted files or files that have had their data moved will leave data behind and increase the used size on CloudDrive. So this is normal, and okay. However, the solution for this would be to zero out the unused data. But ... especially in your case, Im not sure if that's worth it. Is there a way of zeroing out the unused data via any of the stablebit suite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Mostly, the only way to get that space back is to zero out the unused space on the drive. There isn't a good way to do so after the fact, but "sdelete" can do so with existing files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Also, keep in mind that you add pools to pools. So you can use CloudDrive still, but add that drive, *and* the pool into another pool. That may be a bit easier to manage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DrivePool is stating it is using 14.7TB of 20.0TB, however CloudDrive is stating it is using 19TB of 20TB.
Is there a way of releasing the unused space on the cloud drive?
It is a network share.
If I open the CloudDrive everything is inside the covefs folder.
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