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Storage size on instance servers (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by seahorse@midwest.social to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I recently had to expand my instance's storage size from 25 GB to 50 GB because it was out of space. How much storage do you all use for your instances? I'm a little surprised that it ran out of space as my instance isn't heavily used.

Am I doing something wrong? I prune all the unused docker images, so it's not that.

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[–] seahorse@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just saw in the Lemmy matrix chat that you cleared up a lot of space by truncating logs. Where are those?

[–] wintermute@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you could truncate -s 0 /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log (which might break logs currently being written), configure logging via docker-compose.yml, or even better /etc/docker/daemon.json

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/49

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thanks. I'll have to look up how to configure daemon.json. I just truncated the logs for now. I wish I had known about that earlier! It cleared up about 15 GB of space.

[–] Redpandalovely@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago

Wow, logs take up a ridiculous amount of space!

[–] wintermute@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you could also free up space on pictrs docker exec -it YOUR_PICTRS_CONTAINER /bin/sh -c "rm /tmp/magick-*"

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm, tried that. It said no magick-* files exist.

[–] wintermute@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

hm, maybe this problem has been fixed

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago

I created this instance with docker directly instead of using Ansible. Not sure if that could be why.