Discrepancy between Volume Usage Dashboard (~3GB) and actual disk usage (52MB)
ramikachlon
HOBBYOP

5 months ago

I am seeing a significant discrepancy between the Volume Usage reported in the Railway dashboard and the actual usage reported by the OS inside the container.

  • Observed Usage (Dashboard): Consistent growth up to ~3.00 GB.
  • Actual Usage (Container CLI):52 MB (verified via
df -h /data  

and

du -sh /data  

).

Environment Details:

  • Mount Path:
/data  
  • Filesystem Type: zfs (detected via device
/dev/zd37440  

)

  • Database: SQLite 3 (primary file is ~54MB).

Diagnostics Performed:

  1. Ran
du -sh /data  

which returns 52M.

2. Ran

df -h /data  

which returns 52M Used and 4.5G Available.

3. Verified directory contents via

ls -laR /data  

. No large hidden files or journal logs (WAL/SHM) account for the missing ~2.9GB.

4. No "open deleted files" appear to be inflating the block usage.

Could you please clarify if this 3GB represents provisioned blocks, snapshot overhead, or if there is a known delay in the volume metric aggregation? I want to ensure I am not actually nearing the 5GB volume limit while the container reports only 2% usage.

$10 Bounty

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