I am now copying a large file from a GCS bucket to Google Drive using a Colab notebook with:

from google.colab import auth
auth.authenticate_user()
project_id = 'my_project_id'
!gcloud config set project {project_id}    
!gsutil -m cp -r (path_to_the_file_in_bucket) /content/google_drive/My Drive/

However, as I copied, I found the storage inside the Colab notebook VM is simultaneously being consumed:

May I know if it is a normal behavior?

How can I prevent the VM from using up its storage under /content/ ?