Cach-chunk-path ignored when vfs set

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Hi,

I just discovered that since adding vfs in order to get round an issue with writing to one of my paths that my cache-chunk-path is now ignored and instead cach-backend is being written to /tmp/rclone on my system disk which means that when it becomes full my system becomes unstable.

is this a known isuse with a workaround? I moved the relative position of the flags etc.

Cheers,
Kieran

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Can you post your command line?

Did you try with the latest beta?

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/usr/bin/rclone mount --config /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --cache-chunk-path=/mnt/disks/media/cache-backend --rc --allow-non-empty --allow-other --drive-chunk-size=256M --vfs-cache-mode writes --cache-dir=/mnt/disks/media --cache-db-purge --cache-tmp-wait-time=1m --cache-tmp-upload-path=/mnt/disks/media/cache-tmp-upload --cache-workers=12 --cache-db-wait-time=5s media-crypt: /mnt/disks/media/crypt

Yes, I tried the latest beta and also regressed back from 1.43.1 to 1.42 to see if it was something that was introduced. Same behaviour observed in all versions.

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Which backend are you using? Jottacloud (and b2 under some circumstances) will write file in /tmp.

You can control the /tmp usage by setting the TMPDIR variable.

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I am using Google Drive, thanks

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I’ve managed to replicate this problem.

The problem is that --cache-db-path and --cache-chunk-path are using the default value of --cache-dir not the value of --cache-dir set on the command line.

This is due to the initialisation sequence of rclone… It is fixable though. Can you please make a new issue on github about it and we’ll fix it :slight_smile:

While researching this, I realised there is a work-around. You can set XDG_CACHE_HOME to set the default value of --cache-dir

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Hi, i have the ame problem more or less.
Because ffmpeg was spewing errors of iligal seek i looked in rclone log and activited --vfs-cache-mode writes , after this i saw a problem . The written file is first put in /mnt/hdd/2TB/Temp/rclone/rclone/vfs/mdstorage_Media_cache/.... and then is copied (NOT MOVED) in /mnt/hdd/2TB/Temp/rclone/rclone_upload/ from where it will finally be uploaded....The file will remain in the first folder
Why is this? Thanks
The command is:
XDG_CACHE_HOME=/mnt/hdd/2TB/Temp/rclone/ rclone mount --allow-other --daemon --cache-db-path /mnt/hdd/2TB/Temp/rclone/ --cache-tmp-upload-path=/mnt/hdd/2TB/Temp/rclone/rclone_upload/ --vfs-cache-mode writes --cache-info-age=24h --log-file /mnt/hdd/2TB/Temp/logs/rclone.log mdstorage_Media_cache: /mnt/remote/md.storage/Media/

P.S. i am using this because i don't want the media filles be written on the ssd drive (root)...so this is why i changed the default location