Dashboard

Posted by jessic

Dashboard is showing the wrong storage, tried using tom ai but it couldn't fix it My question: a refresh didnt work SparkBox AI replied: Everything's actually healthy and the doctor confirms MEDIAROOT is correctly reading /mnt/storage/sparkbox-data/media with 12,249GB free — that matches what df -h showed you (12T avail). So the underlying config is 100% correct. The 1327.6GB/1832.7GB figure on your tile isn't your media pool at all — it's too small, more like a ~1.8TB disk. That's almost certainly the dashboard reading /opt/sparkbox (the install disk, separate from your media pool) or another mount entirely, not a stale cache. Doctor shows free space at your install disk is 165GB, not matching either number, so it's not that one specifically — but the tile is clearly pointed at some other filesystem than your media pool. This looks like a real dashboard bug rather than something I can fix from here — the storage tile logic itself needs to target MEDIAROOT and it isn't. I'd flag this one to Tom directly rather than keep guessing at UI internals I can't inspect.

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Chris wrote:

You're not imagining it — that number really is reading the wrong drive. It's supposed to show your media drive, but it's stuck on the small drive SparkBox itself is installed on, so it will never match your actual media pool. The 12,249GB free the doctor found is the real number for your media drive — trust that over the tile. This is a known bug and our team is investigating it. Until it's fixed, use df -h or the doctor's numbers for an accurate storage read.

Chris wrote:

Coming back to correct my earlier answer, because part of it was wrong and I'm sorry for that. This is not a bug we are investigating, and I should not have said it was. What that headline number actually is: the Storage widget shows the drive that holds SparkBox's own app data (settings, databases, photos, backups). The note under the number says so: "The disk SparkBox and your apps live on." On your box that is the roughly 1.8 TB drive. Your media pool is a separate drive, and the doctor's 12,249 GB free is the true figure for it. Nothing is misconfigured and nothing needs changing. One thing to check: on the Home page, the same Storage widget lists every drive in the box under the headline when there is more than one, with its own usage bar, biggest first. Your media pool should be in that list. If you only see the single number with no list of drives underneath, reply with the version shown under SparkBox Core in Settings and I'll pick it up from there.