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Growing without and end, each file varies in size, one being bigger than the other, as I wrote in the description of the post. They will continue to stack up until it fills my entire 1TB SSD, then KDE will complain i have no storage left.
I dont have docker installed and Podman ps --all says I have no containers... So im kind of lost at sea with this one.
Those aren't the only containers. It could be containrd, lxc, etc.
One thing that might help track it down could be running
sudo lsof | grep '/var/tmp'
. If any of those files are currently opened it should list the process that hold the file handle."lsof" is "list open files". Run without parameters it just lists everything.
Thanks for helping out! the command u gave me, plus opening one of the files gives the following output, I dont really know what to make of it;
Aha! Looks like it is podman then.
So - there are a few different types of resources podman manages.
podman container ls
podman image ls
podman volume ls
When you do a "prune" it only removes resources that aren't in use. It could be that you have some container that references a volume that keeps it around. Maybe there's a process that spins up and runs the container on a schedule, dunno. The above podman commands might help find a name of something that can be helpful.
aha! Found three volumes! had not checked volumes uptil now, frankly never used podman so this is all new to me... Using
podman inspect volume
gives me this on the first volume;Navigating the various things podman/docker allocate can be a bit annoying. The cli tools don't make it terribly obvious either.
You can try using
docker volume rm name
to remove them. It may tell you they're in use and then you'll need to find the container using them.Does all this also apply to distrobox? I don't use podman, but I do use distrobox, which I think is a front-end for it, but I don't know if the commands listed here would be the same.
I'm not terribly familiar with distrobox unfortunately. If it's a front end for podman then you can probably use the podman commands to clean up after it? Not sure if that's the "correct" way to do it though.