Qubes Disk Space Widget "Warning you are running out of disk space. 0.1% space left in pool varlibqubes"

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I am getting conflicting messages from Qubes Disk Space monitor Widget when hovering over it and then clicking on it.

When I hover the Disk Space monitor Widget, I get the message “WARNING! You are running out of disk space. 0.1% disk space left in pool varlibqubes”

But when I left click on the widget I get

Total Disk Usage 13.2%.`
Volumes -> Linux Kernel -> varlibqubes -> data -> 99.9% -> 19.5GB/19.5GB
vm-pool -> data -> 12.2%  201.8GB/1654.0GB -> metadata 19.6%

The (beginning) output of sudo lvs | head is

  LV                                                         VG         Attr       LSize   Pool      Origin                                                     Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  root                                                       qubes_dom0 Vwi-aotz--  20.00g root-pool                                                            99.44                                  
  root-pool                                                  qubes_dom0 twi-aotz--  24.00g                                                                      82.87  27.71                           
  swap                                                       qubes_dom0 -wi-ao----   3.93g

The (beginning) output of sudo lvs is

                       LV                                                         VG         Attr       LSize   Pool      Origin                                                     Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  root                                                       qubes_dom0 Vwi-aotz--  20.00g root-pool                                                            99.44                                  
  root-pool                                                  qubes_dom0 twi-aotz--  24.00g                                                                      82.87  27.71                           
  swap                                                       qubes_dom0 -wi-ao----   3.93g

My fear is that I’m going to get the “Out of Disk Space Error” and my Qubes is going to crash.

But I also know that I just installed a 2TB Hard drive, and that it would be impossible for me to fill up my Qubes Hard drive so soon after installation.

So my question is, what does

0.1% disk space left in pool varlibqubes

mean and how is it affecting me? What exactly is varlibqubes? Am I going to run out of disk space causing Qubes to crash shortly, and if so, how can I fix it so that varlibqubes has more disk space? and when my Total Disk Usage is 13.2%, how can I be running out of disk space? Why is Qubes not appropriating my full disk space to varlibqubes?

Help me out here!

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Qubes creates two thin pools, you are running out of space on the one of them. You need to resize that pool or free up some space in it. Have you installed stuff in dom0 ?

This should work

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