Issue with SparkBox not reading hard drive size correctly

Posted by lifeisstory

SparkBox is showing that my hard drive space is 218GB with 150GB remaining. It should actually be 7.3TB with 3.6TB remaining. Here's my conversation with TOM AI: SparkBox AI replied: Your setup is fine. /mnt/Expansion is the 7.3 TB drive, arr-data sits on it, and the dashboard container is mounted on that same folder. Nothing needs moving. The 150 GB figure is the dashboard's own reading, and it doesn't match the kernel. df says 3.6 TB free, and du finds 1.9 TB in your library. The dashboard's folder scan also says nothing is stored there. That's a SparkBox measurement problem, not a config problem. To see which side the apps agree with, run these and paste the output: sudo docker exec sb-sonarr df -h /data sudo docker exec sb-dashboard df -h /host/media What I still need help with: Here is the output: sudo docker exec sb-sonarr df -h /data sudo docker exec sb-dashboard df -h /host/media Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 7.3T 3.8T 3.6T 52% /data Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 218G 61G 147G 30% /host/media Unsure why sonarr can pick up the drive appropriately but not sparkbox.

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Chris wrote:

Sorry, the earlier AI answer was wrong. It said the dashboard was reading the same drive as your apps and called the 150 GB a SparkBox measurement problem. Your output shows otherwise: Sonarr sees the 7.3 TB drive (/dev/sdb2), but the dashboard is looking at the 218 GB system disk (/dev/sda2). Here is why. Each app attaches your media folder at the moment it starts. If the dashboard started before your Expansion drive was mounted, it keeps looking at the empty folder on the system disk underneath that mount point. When the drive shows up late, SparkBox restarts your media apps, but on your version it does not restart the dashboard. So the dashboard keeps the old view: its number is accurate, but for the wrong disk. Your files and settings are fine. One check: run sudo sparkbox restart dashboard, wait a minute, then run sudo docker exec sb-dashboard df -h /host/media again. It should now show the 7.3T drive, and Storage will read correctly. If it still shows 218G, paste that line here. An upcoming update makes the dashboard restart on its own when the drive mounts late. We have also corrected what the assistant knows, so the next person with a late-mounting drive gets the right answer.