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Title: Checking Disk
Post by: Cliff on November 19, 2012, 09:14:21 AM

This morning I woke to find one of my volumes showing completely full. It's a 2TB Seagate drive about a year old. Yesterday it had a couple of hundred gb free, so this didn't make sense to me.

I fired up the disk scan and so far it's at 39% complete after 3 hrs. Does this seem normal? Will I get an error report at the completion of the scan? Is it time to replace the drive?

Title: Re: Checking Disk
Post by: JavaLawyer on November 19, 2012, 09:29:21 AM

Did you try searching for files created/modified over the past 24 hours to see if an application/process was writing to the volume?

Title: Re: Checking Disk
Post by: Cliff on November 19, 2012, 09:33:36 AM

That, of course, is an excellent suggestion and I didn't think of doing that. Disk checking is now at 44%. I'm going to wait until the check has finished running and do that check for recent files.

Depending on what I find I'll probably configure the email alert setting as well.
Hope my DNS isn't failing....

Title: Re: Checking Disk
Post by: JavaLawyer on November 19, 2012, 09:57:08 AM

When you perform that search, you should make hidden files/folders visible to make sure you catch everything: Windows: Folder options > View > Files and Folders Show hidden files, folders, and drives

Title: Re: Checking Disk
Post by: Cliff on November 19, 2012, 09:59:48 AM

Thanks JL. I have hidden files on the time, but I appreciate the suggestion.
I cannot access the other volume from my PC. Does the DNS block both volumes while one is getting scanned?

Title: Re: Checking Disk
Post by: Cliff on November 19, 2012, 11:41:44 AM

It has been stuck at 91% for about an hour now. The drive activity light is not flashing.

Is it safe to attempt the web based system reboot, or should I wait longer?

Title: Re: Checking Disk
Post by: Cliff on November 20, 2012, 05:32:38 AM

Update:
I setup a number of XBMC hosts in the house. I had each one back itself up so I wouldn't have to reconfigure it if it blew up. Wow, do 5 XBMC daily backups generate a lot of data. Backups now changed to weekly.

Drive filled up completely. DNS-323 does some very weird things when the drive is full. Anyway, I soft rebooted the box when it was stuck on 91%. I removed the extra backups. Not entirely true as they are still being deleted after running all night. Decided to move my oh-so-critical 'Drivers' folder to another volume. That should give me back about 400GB.

Then I'll run the disk check again. Thanks Java for your help. A major crises averted!

Title: Re: Checking Disk
Post by: JavaLawyer on November 20, 2012, 07:04:47 AM

I'm glad everything worked out.  ;)