# Turning off used space filewalker

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/turning-off-used-space-filewalker/25954>\
**Category:** FAQ\
**Tags:** filewalker\
**Created:** [April 25, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/turning-off-used-space-filewalker/25954 "2024-04-25T04:02:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/turning-off-used-space-filewalker/25954/1 "2024-04-25T04:02:18Z")

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I believed I had turned off used space filewalker.

According to @clement

> [@Enabling the Lazyfilewalker](https://forum.storj.io/t/enabling-the-lazyfilewalker/22966/18):
>
> The lazyfilewalker will only run for garbage collection but not used-space calculation if the piece scan on startup is disabled.

In my run command I have `--storage2.piece-scan-on-startup false \ --pieces.enable-lazy-filewalker false \`

and in my logs I see:

```auto
2024-04-23T21:51:06Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-23T23:05:16Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T00:39:24Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T01:53:06Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T02:01:33Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T02:03:13Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T02:14:00Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T02:22:00Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T03:05:59Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T03:52:29Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T05:37:17Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T06:11:49Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T08:03:57Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T08:43:13Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T09:32:53Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T14:41:58Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T15:26:08Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T16:23:41Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T18:29:46Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T18:48:47Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T19:48:05Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T20:22:23Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T21:16:52Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T21:36:22Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}
2024-04-24T22:12:52Z INFO lazyfilewalker.used-space-filewalker subprocess started {"Process": "storagenode", "satelliteID": "12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S"}

```

How can I stop the used space filewalker from running completely?

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**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/turning-off-used-space-filewalker/25954/2 "2024-04-25T04:08:23Z")

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Try to use a different notation:

```auto
--storage2.piece-scan-on-startup=false \
--pieces.enable-lazy-filewalker=false \

```

Make sure that they are provided after the image name.

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**Author:** ![jammerdan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/jammerdan/32/1121_2.png) [@jammerdan](https://forum.storj.io/u/jammerdan)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/turning-off-used-space-filewalker/25954/3 "2024-04-25T04:09:25Z")

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> [@Alexey](#):
>
> Try to use a different notation:
> 
> ```auto
> --storage2.piece-scan-on-startup=false \
> --pieces.enable-lazy-filewalker=false \
> 
> ```

Thanks, will try. (20 chars to heaven…)

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**Author:** ![Roberto](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roberto/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Roberto](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roberto)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/turning-off-used-space-filewalker/25954/4 "2024-04-25T07:15:16Z")

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To turn off the used filewalker I used the config file

 ![IMG_4193](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/3X/2/0/20af9445e4c612271d4b0872e0242b1c4f5f8d91.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/turning-off-used-space-filewalker/25954/5 "2024-04-26T07:26:28Z")

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Parameters passed through a command line arguments have a precedence above parameters in the `config.yaml` file. You just need to make sure that they are passed to storagenode (not to docker, so thus requirements to place them **after** the image name in your `docker run` command). But generally - you are correct, they _also_ can be specified in the `config.yaml` file.  
For the docker setups it’s not so convenient, especially if you use `docker compose`, though.