Adding files fails if not enough space on primary drive

I use ipfs-desktop 0.8.0.0 (and go-ipfs 0.4.21) on Windows 10. I configured IPFS to use a secondary partition for the blocks (drive N in my case). IPFS is installed on my primary drive, C. I created this configuration by editing the config.json of IPFS Desktop and its ipfsConfig / path value.

I tried to add a bigger file (3.3 GB). IPFS first tried to create multiple files in the %APPDATA%/IPFS Desktop/blob_storage. I didn’t expect this, because I set the storage path to the drive N. When I didn’t have enough space on my drive C for those files, the adding failed with a general error message, but I didn’t get an exact error explaining the reason.

It would be good to check the space on both the primary drive (with the blob_storage folder, C in my case) and the drive containing the blocks (N in my case) if they have enough space for the adding before starting the operation, and let the user know if they need to make more space to continue.

[hacdias]

My problem seems to be solved for now

That’s great! Although, I will leave this issue open until I can find a way to make sure this doesn’t happen.

is there a way to turn on the logging of the exact ipfs commands that ipfs-desktop executes on the daemon?

No, unfortunately no. We’re using js-ipfs-http-client which then makes requests to the IPFS HTTP API. The paths of the API could be easily mapped to strict commands, however that’s not a current feature of ours.

[lidel]

I added a 3.3 GB file with ipfs add <file> and the blocks became 30.6 GB, so everything looked good when I used go-ipfs directly.

Then I deleted the file using the ipfs files rm <file> command.

I run the ipfs repo gc once again, but the blocks folder stayed 30.6 GB, I don’t know why, I expected it to shrink by 3.3 GB.

When you use CLI, the ipfs add pins added data, so it is protected against GC. You can remove pins via ipfs pin rm $CID, or disable automatic pinning by executing ipfs add --pin=false

ps. adding big files should be MUCH faster in v0.13.2