Is there any way to show the space taken on the underlying filesystem by the shared folders? I mean in the UI, I know how to use "du -h" in the cli 
Show size taken by "Shared Folders"?
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Is there any way to show the space taken on the underlying filesystem by the shared folders?
Nope. If a system had lots of shared folders and/or lots of small files in those shared folders, it would take forever to calculate.
I know how to use "du -h" in the cli
du -d0 -x -h is much faster : )
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Nope. If a system had lots of shared folders and/or lots of small files in those shared folders, it would take forever to calculate.
Coderoot@nas:~# time ncdu / real 0m2.490s user 0m0.234s sys 0m0.745s root@nas:~#I have 4 TB of files not including the system drive
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I have 4 TB of files not including the system drive
How many files? And if you had 50 shared folders x 2.5 secs per shared folder, that would time out. Even if it didn't time out, it would be terrible to wait for.
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If you are using Btrfs, then shared folders are subvolumes which should show you the information in CLI what you are interested in.
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I have 8 shared folders containing 7181 files (subfolders included). But maybe I started the thread on the wrong foot
Why I would find such a feature useful. I have rsync pull jobs on a different omv machine that backs up the first one. I run the jobs manually. Since the space on machine 2 is less than the space on machine one it would be nice to be able to tell if I have enough space on the backup machine by looking at the space taken by the shared folders on machine 1. From the UI. Then I could quickly decide which jobs to run and which not. I absolutely do not care how long it would take the computer to calculate the size of the shared folders.
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I absolutely do not care how long it would take the computer to calculate the size of the shared folders.
Because you only have 7181 files, it is quick. But if this feature was added to an existing tab, it would not be optional. While you may not care about the time it takes to calculate, many others would. So, it would need to be a separate tab or even a separate plugin.
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I am also interested in seeing the used size of a shared folder. How about determining and saving the size in a separate job? This saved size could then be displayed in the GUI. The displayed size is then an approximate value. How often this size is determined should be adjustable. And a switch to activate/deactivate this function is also an option.
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