Deleted a share , where are my files now?

[raidsm]

Hi!

I deleted a share. In the share there was some files inside (aprox 30Gb). How do I recover the free space because I hadn't recovered the 30GB used by te files when I deleted the share?

Was I suppose to delete the files prior deleting the share? :shocked

:thinking

[Jocko]

Hi raidsm,

Was I suppose to delete the files prior deleting the share?

No, the firmware should delete the files at the same time as it removes the share.
if used space has not been released I assume that the firmware failed to delete them :scratchand it should send a warning in this case :scratch

So first test check if the files are still here :

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ls -a /share/1000/deletedsharename

Note: if you had used hard symlink on them they are not deleted up to you remove the related hard symlinks. But I don't think it is your case.

[Jocko]

I checked the delete share function and indeed no warning is sent if it fails to delete the share folder.

only on debug mode, you have a trace in the syslog file: /var/log/messages

[raidsm]

I think it was the small pie chart that wasn't update as fast.. Thanks you jocko anyway my files weren't there anymore.

[Jocko]

I don't think that : pie chart is rebuilt at each time you load the menu.