# Balance of own and other people's data

**URL:** <https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/balance-of-own-and-other-peoples-data/13980>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** go-ipfs, files\
**Created:** [April 13, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/balance-of-own-and-other-peoples-data/13980 "2022-04-13T12:56:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![technologiespro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/technologiespro/32/1688_2.png) [@technologiespro](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/technologiespro)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/balance-of-own-and-other-peoples-data/13980/1 "2022-04-13T12:56:55Z")

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I store in ipfs 40mb, other people’s blocks occupy 675 GB.  
how to adjust the balance between your own and other people’s blocks?

 ![storage](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ipfs1/original/2X/1/12788be88d1c38393547738d52f21735cd4d3375.png)  
 ![traffik](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ipfs1/original/2X/8/87c08b8f8e7db9c950111a8f84dfdf231cab1498.png)

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**Author:** ![Jorropo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/jorropo/32/3230_2.png) [@Jorropo](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Jorropo)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/balance-of-own-and-other-peoples-data/13980/2 "2022-04-13T17:14:37Z")

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There is no “others people blocks”.

**IPFS does not store other people blocks unless you explicitely ask it to** , that means:

- Pinning the file, (`ipfs pin add QmExample`), then you will download it and host it _forever_ (or until you shutdown your node or remove it)
- Host cached data, when you download some data you also cache it and reshare it for _some time_. You can do `ipfs repo gc` to trigger a garbage collection run. You can also pass `--enable-gc` to `ipfs daemon` to enable the automatic GC.

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**Author:** ![smallyu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/smallyu/32/6348_2.png) [@smallyu](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/smallyu)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/balance-of-own-and-other-peoples-data/13980/3 "2022-04-20T09:42:27Z")

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If I published a file, other nodes won’t store my file? I can’t check the file in the gateway after I stop my own node?

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**Author:** ![Jorropo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/jorropo/32/3230_2.png) [@Jorropo](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Jorropo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/balance-of-own-and-other-peoples-data/13980/4 "2022-04-20T11:21:07Z")

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No they wont unless the node owner explicitly do it.