Disk usage discrepancy?

Depending on the speed of your drive, but it might take days before the filewalker finished.

It’s a 7200rpm 16TB HDD.
Any prediction a bit more accurate?

Rather days than hours, but not a week.
It all depends on whether PC isn’t being restarted in time between, no storagenode updates, the real amount of files on your node, …

What file system are you using BTW?

@naxbc
fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo E:

copy this in the admin shell. press enter. post the screenshot(output). Please.

And welcome back.

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It’s NTFS on a Ryzen 7 with 32GB RAM.

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That looks fine… So only seems to be an unfinished file walker.

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I’d love to hear the average times for other peoples start-time filewalkers. Does 4h/used-TB sound reasonable? So if OP has around 9TB filled that would mean ~36 hours?

I posted my fw run times. See Tuning the filewalker.

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And, after 15 days, I get these lovely numbers…

Maybe we wait for the bigger Bloom-filters, fix is on the way.
Plus improved solution for the future is planned.

Even after forgetting untrusted satelites i still have a hugh issue with disc discrepancy:
windows reported use:
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dashboard:

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Hi, I do see a bigger difference. My node is full for at least 2 months at 12 TB +/- 0.5G free and trash.

But yet, the average disk space used is staying at 10TB. So that is a 2TB difference.

I have a xfs file system. Not sure if that is causing this. But I can only think of small files being stored. Where the average is calculated by the satellites, I guess based on file size.
So when there are a lot of small files, it can eat up my storage sectors on disk and not filling all sectors due to the disk block size. So I am loosing space on my disks. Which would be a shame, but nothing Storj can do about it.
But at least I would like to know if that could explain the difference between the two values. Sounds placeble?

2024-01-24T22:28:33Z    INFO    lazyfilewalker.gc-filewalker.subprocess gc-filewalker started   {"process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S", "process": "storagenode", "createdBefore": "2024-01-17T17:59:59Z", "bloomFilterSize": 2097155}
2024-01-25T03:20:07Z    INFO    lazyfilewalker.gc-filewalker    subprocess finished successfully        {"process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}

2024-01-25T19:42:34Z    INFO    lazyfilewalker.gc-filewalker.subprocess gc-filewalker started   {"process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "1wFTAgs9DP5RSnCqKV1eLf6N9wtk4EAtmN5DpSxcs8EjT69tGE", "createdBefore": "2024-01-21T15:26:55Z", "bloomFilterSize": 364960, "process": "storagenode"}
2024-01-25T19:49:13Z    INFO    lazyfilewalker.gc-filewalker    subprocess finished successfully        {"process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "1wFTAgs9DP5RSnCqKV1eLf6N9wtk4EAtmN5DpSxcs8EjT69tGE"}

2024-01-26T14:58:04Z    INFO    lazyfilewalker.gc-filewalker.subprocess gc-filewalker started   {"process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "121RTSDpyNZVcEU84Ticf2L1ntiuUimbWgfATz21tuvgk3vzoA6", "process": "storagenode", "createdBefore": "2024-01-22T17:59:58Z", "bloomFilterSize": 574785}
2024-01-26T15:31:29Z    INFO    lazyfilewalker.gc-filewalker    subprocess finished successfully        {"process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "121RTSDpyNZVcEU84Ticf2L1ntiuUimbWgfATz21tuvgk3vzoA6"}

2024-01-28T08:29:37Z    INFO    lazyfilewalker.gc-filewalker.subprocess gc-filewalker started   {"process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12L9ZFwhzVpuEKMUNUqkaTLGzwY9G24tbiigLiXpmZWKwmcNDDs", "process": "storagenode", "createdBefore": "2024-01-23T17:59:59Z", "bloomFilterSize": 1877458}
2024-01-28T12:25:18Z    INFO    lazyfilewalker.gc-filewalker    subprocess finished successfully        {"process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12L9ZFwhzVpuEKMUNUqkaTLGzwY9G24tbiigLiXpmZWKwmcNDDs"}
Satellite ID Used space Time
12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S 2.18TB 4h 52m
1wFTAgs9DP5RSnCqKV1eLf6N9wtk4EAtmN5DpSxcs8EjT69tGE 1.24TB 0h 7m
121RTSDpyNZVcEU84Ticf2L1ntiuUimbWgfATz21tuvgk3vzoA6 645.58GB 0h 33m
12L9ZFwhzVpuEKMUNUqkaTLGzwY9G24tbiigLiXpmZWKwmcNDDs 2.77TB 3h 56m

So, for me it sounds like 1h23m/TB

Did all filewalkers finish their jobs for all satellites? Or do you still have errors related to them or FATAL errors?

Is it exFAT? Because 4.57TB cannot use almost 9TB
Also, do you have errors related to filewalkers?

In this thread we discussing disk discrepancies on nodes, where disk is not able to keep up and lazy filewalkers are failing to finish their job.
So, please check your logs for errors related to filewalkers (search for "walk|retain" and "failed|error"), also search for FATAL errors.

My bad. Will search further

No problem at all. Just add what you have done so far.

No. Even after 15 days, some were still running. Either way, no errors nor FATAL regarding any on them. I’ve restarted my node with lazy disabled to see how it goes. Now, my numbers are even worse, and disk usage increased…