Restore Fails: "Not Enough Free Storage to Continue"

**jasn** · March 31, 2018 at 10:24 PM

Greetings. My 5.5 GB .tar fails to run due to the error message "There is not enough free storage to continue". I found a previous thread, linked below, where the recommendation was to log into LibreELEC via SSH and run; dh -h | pastebinit then paste the url. The OP never followed up. I have perfromed the task and the url is:

http:/http://ix.io/1569

Can you help? Thanks!

There is not enough free storage space to continue ??

**Klojum** · April 1, 2018 at 12:55 AM Official Post

Usually the grunt of /storage is contained in the large Thumbnails folder. See what size that is, and delete when possible.

I take it the 5.5GB tar file also occupies space in /storage, and so the chicken & egg story begins.

It should also be possible to select a .tar backup file for a restore from a network location, so it will not double-burden the /storage partition.

**jasn** · April 1, 2018 at 2:44 AM

Thank you Klojum. I deleted my Thumbnails folder and it freed up enough space for a Restore (Phew!).

I'd tried doing backups and restores to my NAS awhile back without success. I'll try a thumb drive next time...

Much appreciated.