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bhcompy
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Any idea what can be deleted from the flash drive? Mine has ballooned and now I cannot upgrade as there is not enough space. The "previous" directory looks like an obvious candidate as the bzfirmware file is huge, but I can't find anything here indicating if this can actually be deleted. There's also the unraidserver directory, which appears to be old upgrade files?  Could those safely be deleted? 

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The "previous" directory is used to allow regression to the previous release via the GUI.  The "unraidserver" directory sounds like one you have created yourself as it is not a standard Unraid one.

 

What size is your flash drive?    It is unusual to fill one up unless you have something unusual writing directly to it,

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It's 2gb.  I haven't written anything to it.  Never touch it.  Just tried to upgrade to 6.12.13 and it failed due to space limitation.  Drive is 90% utilized.  I will delete unraidserver and see what happens.  If not, I will delete the previous directory as there is no need to revert version at this point as it's been stable for months on .10.

 

Thank you

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4 minutes ago, bhcompy said:

It's 2gb.  I haven't written anything to it.  Never touch it.  Just tried to upgrade to 6.12.13 and it failed due to space limitation.  Drive is 90% utilized.  I will delete unraidserver and see what happens.  If not, I will delete the previous directory as there is no need to revert version at this point as it's been stable for months on .10.

 

Thank you

OK - that explains it filling up (most people complain have much larger ones).    Note that even without the 'previous' folder you can still downgrade to previous release using the old manual method.

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When I setup my server everyone said grab an old USB2 flash drive and use that because USB3 was not preferred and there's a lot of poor quality/counterfeit newer ones out there, so that's what I grabbed. 

 

Thank you for your help

 

edit: Removing the unRAIDServer folder did the trick

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