How do I see how much space my filespace is using?

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LucidLink is a scale-out distributed file system that sits on top of object storage. LucidLink splits the data from the metadata and chunks data to a specific block size. As there is virtually no limit to the size of a LucidLink filespace, aside from potential constraints placed on buckets by specific object storage providers, it may be a little harder to quickly see disk usage statistics in LucidLink. 

On Windows, a LucidLink filespace can show up as an endless mount point, that never fills up. On macOS and Linux, the mount point does not have associated used size information.

You can see the total amount of data used in the filespace, including Snapshots, by reviewing the "Current storage" information in the LucidLink application under "Filespace details".

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This is the total amount of data, used by the filespace, in your object storage bucket or blob storage so it includes data retained in Snapshots too.

To see how much space is used per file or folder, you could right-click on files and folders in the LucidLink filespace and select properties (or Get Info), or using du -bsh on Linux.

Please note, that this calculates the size of the filespace (mount-point) and does not include the disk space, used by the LucidLink Client in cache or metadata (the internal `.lucid`) folder.
 

 

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