is 107GB normal for a newy created diffdisk file?

[pa-0]

I just installed Colima and ran it for the first time. Is this normal?

[abiosoft]

That is not the actual disk size, the entire space is not occupied yet on your machine.

[MichelDiz]

This has really become a problem for me. I’m using Colima for Docker and Lima for VMs. Both created these diffdisks and they’re taking up 214 GB! That’s insane!

There’s practically nothing inside these VMs. I created them less than two weeks ago. Now my poor 500 GB drive is struggling because of it.

PS. Sounds like a macOS issue. The APFS doesn't properly understand sparse files when calculating disk space.

 micheldiz@MacBook-Pro-de-Michel-3  ~/  du -h ~/.colima/_lima/colima/diffdisk
3,0G	/Users/micheldiz/.colima/_lima/colima/diffdisk
 micheldiz@MacBook-Pro-de-Michel-3  ~/  ls -lh ~/.colima/_lima/colima/diffdisk
-rw-------@ 1 micheldiz  staff   100G  6 Jun 03:27 /Users/micheldiz/.colima/_lima/colima/diffdisk

Any ideas?