Avg disk space used dropped with 60-70%

You need to check the space in SI units

df --si -T

However, if some deletion would happen, your node would reporting the free space to the satellite again and will happily accept the traffic until it hit the threshold again.

I believe you need to enable a scan on startup if you disabled it and wait until databases would be updated with an actual usage keeping the allocation below the usage showed on the dashboard.