I am using Boinc version 6.10.17.

My Boinc manager shows the following disk usage:
• Used by Boinc: 47.3 MB
• Free, available to Boinc: 143.59 MB
• Free, not available to Boinc: 102 MB
• Used by other programs: 194 MB
• Total disk space seen by Boinc: 487 MB

My disk has 7.21 GB. External to Boinc it shows that only 1.13 GB is used. I would like to configure Boinc to use the unused portions. No matter how I set the disk usage settings, no change from the above disk usage happens. It doesn’t matter whether I change the setting locally or on the web profile. The total used or available to Boinc stays at 0.19 GB.

Also, why doesn’t Boinc see the correct total disk space (7.21 GB) while Boinc sees a total disk space of 0.486 GB?

It restricts me from working on the larger tasks. I am currently working on World Community Grid. I can only work on the projects Fighting Aids and am restricted from working on Mapping Cancer Markers as well as the Clean Energy Project Phase 2.

Thanks for helping me resolve this.

Could you give more details about your host, OS, bitness and source of your copy of BOINC? Have you tried using newer BOINC?

I am using Ubuntu 8.10. 64 Bit. What are the details of how moving to a newer version of Boinc resolves this specific issue?

Ok, then the source of BOINC. Repositories, Berkeley, self compiled?

As for moving to a newer version, sometimes stuff is fixed in newer versions. For 8.10, I guess the only source for newest BOINC could be DIY.

Where is BOINC's data directory? It is showed in startup messages.

The Boinc startup directory is at: /home/boinc/BOINC

The source of the Boinc is Dotsch/UX v 1.2 x64.

Assuming Dotsch/UX 1.2 is based on Ubuntu 8.10, could you clarify if you are running Dotsch/UX or plain Ubuntu?

Is that path on local HDD, USB stick, network share, something else? Have you by any chance set up a diskless station?

Can you run the following command and post its output:

stat -f /home/boinc/BOINC

1) Dotsch/Ux.

2) USB Stick.

3) File: "/home/boinc/BOINC"
ID:0 Namelen: 251 Type: Unknown (0x61756673)
Block size: 1024 Fundamental Block Size: 1024
Blocks: Total: 499814 Free: 276461 Available: 250657
Inodes: Total: 129024 Free: 127991

Ok, the OS says total space is 488 MB and free space is 244 MB. Not a bug in BOINC but something in your setup.

The filesystem type 0x61756673 is Aufs. You can use Aufs to create layered filesystems, like having one read-only filesystem and another filesystem on top of that for writes.

You didn't say but I'm guessing you either use Dotsch/UX in LiveCD mode with USB stick as persistent storage or installed the OS into USB stick with different layers for base OS image, OS changes and BOINC.

The amount of disk space available to BOINC depends on what values you chose during the setup. So, at this point you are looking into re-installing the OS. If you think you chose good values during setup you'll need to tell us all the details on how you set up the system.