qBit does delete the file from my physical drive (direct attached storage, raid5). But won’t update the free space in the WebUI. The discrepency is over 1TB, so I’d like to address this if someone can help me.

Some info:

  • qBit v.5.0.1, docker, from linuxserver.io
  • Ubuntu 24.04
  • Automatic Management Mode is checked
  • Torrent content removing mode: Delete files permanently
  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Has it been happening since qBittorrent 5.x ? Only reason I ask is that 5.0 did introduce a new feature per https://www.qbittorrent.org/news

    FEATURE: Allow to move content files to Trash instead of deleting them (glassez)

    Maybe double-check the qBittorrent settings and verify that isn’t somehow enabled? I’m not on on that version yet so can’t be sure how that new feature works or is configured.

    If it’s not that then I suspect the other comments are right e.g. a hardlinked file elsewhere would defintiely mean you need to delete all the hardlinks to actually free up space.

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    2 hours ago

    Are you hard-linking it to somewhere else on the drive via any kind of automation?

    For example, Sonarr can hard-link files to the directories they belong in, so that Qbit can continue seeding. If you then delete/remove the torrent/files – then the hard link would still be there.

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      31 minutes ago

      It is a really good thought. Your comment prompted me to check the whole machine (SSD + raid array) and I don’t have any hard-linking of media files, torrent files or anything like that. So that isn’t it.

      I think it’s just a bug in the system.

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      1 hour ago

      Exactly what I was going to say because this hit me a while back. I still have no good solution; I have to delete shows/movies from the *arr then manually delete them from qbitorrent too.

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      3 hours ago

      I deleted .25 terabytes and it hasn’t changed at all. It used to increment up after every deletion, so this is new.

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    2 hours ago

    Have you tried deleting the docker config and starting with a fresh install?

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      34 minutes ago

      Not yet and hopefully I won’t have to do that.

    • While this would almost certainly work, it would be nice if the root cause can be discovered and either fixed or worked around. Having to reinstall everytime one needs to free up disk space is … less than ideal.

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    3 hours ago

    Does it update if you refresh the page? You may just want to file a bug report.

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      3 hours ago

      It doesn’t. I rolled the version back to 4.6.7 and it didn’t help, so I moved it forward again. Restarted the container, then the stack, then the whole physical machine. Nothing so far. Yeah, maybe I’ll file a report on their page.