After a bit of research I've tracked down the problem. Actually two things were using up my disc space. Firstly, the 2TB drive on my new setup had been created with the default ratio of inodes. For a 2TB drive this amounted to 122101760 inodes each of size 256k. As my drive is only going to used to ...

Background I have a Synology NAS drive with two 2TB drives in a mirror configuration. I have run out of space so bought a HP Proliant Microserver N40L. I have one spare 2TB so my aim was to install the 2TB drive on the Microserver, copy all my data from the Synology and then remove the 2x2TB from th...

Just purchased an HP Proliant N40L Microserver £239 from Dabs with £100 cashback from HP (previous owner of a Synology NAS drive which has slowly filled itself up) to use a server for all my media. Moved supplied disk to CD space and have installed 3 x 2Tb drives. Looking to run Ubuntu server. Will ...