Hi,
Mac mini M4 pro Sequoa 15.1.1
32 TB in Raid10, have been scrubbing/trasnferring to other extenal storage/deleting for a couple of days, yet OS Get Info, and terminal diskutil list
both claim only 440GB free space. I know I have deleted c.2.5 TB
have tried disconnecting, restart...
Hi Chris,
First question, did you empty the trash? When you delete files macOS just moves them to the trashcan.
Second question, did you format the R8 with APFS?
macOS uses APFS volumes for snapshots and various other purposes. Also for some reason disk space made available by deleting files may not show up for a while, it is said that macOS will free up the space as it needs it.
APFS is not recommended for spinning disks for a number of reasons.
Hi RP,
yes the trash has been emptied multiple times
drive is formatted APFS, I've had it c.3 years, I have no idea if I formatted it, or it delivered that way.
I have always understood from other NAS systems I have had, synology, qnap, HP, and assorted iterations of freenas et al, that filesystem translation was always a source of a performance hit. So I saw APFS as a good thing.
The 'free up at it's own discretion' I have seen mentioned here and there.
The Pegasus is excluded from Spotlight btw
Even sonething like Disk Space Alayser posts teh same 400GB available of 16 TB banner, so its polling a prevalued resource rather than doing the grunt up front.
What I am trying to find out, is how to retrigger an accurate evaluation of the R8 space.
The data set was periodic full backups of a project over the last 3 years. Each backup is c. 160-200 GB
I am trying to weed out, and move to deep storage, this archival material, as the R8 is basically out of space.
Due to the large number of media files ~600,000 to 900,000 per backup, scattered across c.12 directories per periiodic backup, which are technically redundant , and the inordinate amout of time to empty the bin if drag/dropped, I have resorted to the essentially instant terminal method of
rm -rf path/to/folder/*
So I am guessing this is probably not so good for Pegasus housekeeping.
