The log will show what du -sh * does not show the actual size used on my disk
The space used and log file will be identical as shown:
2021/06/13 07:57:29 INFO : vfs cache: cleaned: objects 54388 (was 54388) in use 0, to upload 0, uploading 0, total size 746.391G (was 746.391G)
felix@gemini:/opt/rclone/logs$ du -sh /cache/vfs/*
747G /cache/vfs/gcrypt
yes, but this is not the actual size used on the disk, in fact what the explorer shows as well as the remaining space of the real disk
That is the actual size used on disk.
You are using some graphical tool which is reporting the sparse file sizes which is why I said to use a CLI tool rather than some 3rd party tool.
felix@gemini:/cache/vfs$ du -sh *
747G gcrypt
felix@gemini:/cache/vfs$ du -sh * --apparent-size
1.2T gcrypt
Sparse files are used by rclone and the first number is the actual size used on disk while the second is the total size of the sparse files, which is a 'fake' number as it's not actual used space.
du -sh * says:
101G vfs
3,3M vfsMeta
jonathan@jonathan-MS-7B86:~/.cache/rclone$ du -sh * --apparent-size
224G vfs
1,5M vfsMeta
And the finder tell 239,9 GB
Right, so it's actually using 101GB.
The 224GB is what is seen as the sparse file size.
Exactly, that's what I've been trying to explain for a while. So the only solution is to cut the desired space in the mount in 2
No it isn't.
Actual used space is what you care about not sparse space.
My actual space on my disk used is 747GB which is fine on my 1TB disk.
The sparse space reported is 1.2TB which would be bigger than my disk if it was actually using it.
Use the command line or find the option in finder to report space used properly as it's confusing you.
df -h /cache does not work for me 
I'm going to do the tests again because the last time I put 800 gb on the 1 tb and it finally filled up so the vfs then continued on my main disk. may be a matter of law on the disk in question which prevented the cache from emptying
Thank you for help!
Hi everything seems stable now, probably the cache hard drive didn't have full rights so it couldn't clear cache but only write to it.
Thank you!
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