Local suddenly full and I can't understand why

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bfish2

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I have a node running the following
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Last night I added syncthings to the docker and successfully synced about 5GB of files from a local Windows PC.

This morning, when I checked my backups they didn't complete successfully last night and I discovered that Local is full:

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I have no Backups, ISO, or CT on that Local storage.

I have looked high and low, following various older forum posts, and I am at a loss what is the issue. I have moved most CTs/VMs off the node, rebooted, but to no avail.

Here is some additional info:

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The two external USB drives (1TB each) are setup as a mirrored ZFS pool within PBackupServer.

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Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. TIA!
 
OK, here is the issue. Local is 72GB total and these first two entries account for 68GB of it.

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Now, not sure what causing it or what to do about it.
 
I see that the space occupied is in directories other than /mnt/pve/NAS_Storage

The naming of the "offending" directories suggests that you intended to use them as a mount location for external disks (i.e. EXT_1TB)

What likely happened is that you dumped the data in these folders but the disks were NOT mounted.

You can mount these disks in a new location, i.e. /mnt/temp. Move or Copy the data from "offending" directories to the disk. Once the copy is complete - remove the data from local disk.

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bbgeek17 said:
Are you sure that you have unmounted the NFS mount as previously suggested?
Rerun the command with -x option to exclude non local locations: du -hxd1

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I'm sorry, but I don't understand. The NAS (NFS) share is tiny. It's the External 1 TB drives (and now re-reading it, I see that the ZFS pool is also big) that are huge. I do have backups on them but nowhere close to their capacity.

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bbgeek17 said:
I see that the space occupied is in directories other than /mnt/pve/NAS_Storage

The naming of the "offending" directories suggests that you intended to use them as a mount location for external disks (i.e. EXT_1TB)

What likely happened is that you dumped the data in these folders but the disks were NOT mounted.

You can mount these disks in a new location, i.e. /mnt/temp. Move or Copy the data from "offending" directories to the disk. Once the copy is complete - remove the data from local disk.

Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox
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THANK YOU! So before I do this, I want to be clear I understand what I should be doing:

1. Create new mount points (directories) for these 2 disks
2. In Datacenter, Storage, mount them to the new mount points
3. Delete the old directories on Proxmox03

Is that right? If so, then I need to update FSTAB file, right?
 
bfish2 said:
1. Create new mount points (directories) for these 2 disks
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sure: mkdir /mnt/d1 /mnt/d2
bfish2 said:
2. In Datacenter, Storage, mount them to the new mount points
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thats one way. Another is simply:
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/d1
bfish2 said:
Delete the old directories on Proxmox03
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if you dont need the data in them, you can delete them.

If you do need the data, then copy it first: cp -r /mnt/pve/EXT_1TB_DISK/ /mnt/d1/

bfish2 said:
Is that right? If so, then I need to update FSTAB file, right?
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If you use Proxmox to configure the mounts, then you dont need fstab. If you do it manually , then you MAY need fstab.
There are many variables.

Good luck

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bbgeek17 said:
sure: mkdir /mnt/d1 /mnt/d2

thats one way. Another is simply:
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/d1

if you dont need the data in them, you can delete them.

If you do need the data, then copy it first: cp -r /mnt/pve/EXT_1TB_DISK/ /mnt/d1/


If you use Proxmox to configure the mounts, then you dont need fstab. If you do it manually , then you MAY need fstab.
There are many variables.

Good luck

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THANK YOU very much @bbgeek17 . My Local is back to where it belongs!
 
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