SOLVED: Reducing number of extra copies

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SOLVED: Reducing number of extra copies

Postby poohbear » Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:49 am

I am using Greyhole UI to manage Greyhole. When I first setup Greyhole, I specified one extra copy on each of the shares. This was a mistake since I have now run out of space on all three 4 TB drives.

I want to free up space by setting extra copies to 0 on one share that has 3 TB of files on it (where I already have an external backup).

I have changed the number of copies to 0 for that share in the Greyhole UI. However, no files seem to have been removed (it has been a couple of weeks).

Is there something I need to/can do to trigger the removal of extra copies on the specified share?

If not, is there an alternative solution I can use to remove the duplicate copies to free up space on the drives installed in the server?

Best regards,

Tom

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Re: Reducing number of extra copies

Postby bigfoot65 » Sat Nov 06, 2021 11:45 am

Please post a copy of your /etc/greyhole.conf file.

This will likely point to the issue.
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Re: Reducing number of extra copies

Postby poohbear » Sat Nov 06, 2021 12:54 pm

Thanks for the very fast reply.

As I was browsing the Storage pooling thread on this forum, I came across a post about manually emptying the Greyhole trash.

I had completely missed that. After running greyhole --empty-trash, a little more than 3 TB of files was removed, approximately matching the size of the share for which I reduced the number of copies.

Unless this is an incredible coincidence, I assume that the files where indeed removed when I reduced the number of copies on the share but were sitting in the Greyhole trash folder.

If that sounds likely, then problem solved. If not, I will post a copy of the conf file once I figure out how to do that (I am brand new to using the terminal/Fedora)

Best regards,
Tom

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Re: Reducing number of extra copies

Postby bigfoot65 » Sat Nov 06, 2021 12:57 pm

Yea that is likely the issue.

Unfortunately you have to empty the trash manually with Greyhole. If you don't, your drive will fill up.

Let consider this resolved.
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