My Discourse dev environment (ubuntu VM) is running out of disk space, despite doubling the VM’s disk size to 24GB last week. Do I need to manually delete old versions of Discourse or run a cleanup script or something? I can’t think of why else I’d be running out of disk space again since my instance of Discourse only has two users and a couple dozen posts.

Probably log files, rm -fr tmp/* You can run ncdu to find where all the space is (apt-get install ncdu)

Looks like the tmp folder under discourse doesn’t have that much. 123.3 MiB [##########] /cache 25.8 MiB [## ] /stylesheet-cache 2.5 MiB [ ] /ember-rails 948.0 KiB [ ] /spec 88.0 KiB [ ] /avatar_proxy 12.0 KiB [ ] /javascript-cache 8.0 KiB [ ] /download_cache 8.0 KiB [ ] /pids e 4.0 KiB [ ] /letter_avatars e 4.0 KiB [ ] /backup_assets 4.0 KiB [ ] rspec_result 4.0 KiB [ ] plugin-hash The entire discourse folder apparently only has 1.2GB. Is anything for Discourse stored elsewhere that I can check directly so I don’t have to wait scanning the whole drive?

Try cleaning up your Docker images and containers, if you’re using it: launcher 456dcfe $docker_path container prune --filter until=1h $docker_path image prune --all --filter until=1h

Perfect, that’s what I needed!

In general this is totally right, but we don’t really have this helper on our dev docker path. We should certainly have a ‘d/cleanup’ for our dev docker setup, @riking maybe add that?

Sure, started DEV: Add docker cleanup script to d/ folder by riking · Pull Request #9082 · discourse/discourse · GitHub Lint appears to have flaked?

Sorry I missed that this was a dev question!

Dev environment running out of disk space

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 29, 2020, 11:40pm 6

Is there any particular reason you’re not saying

./launcher cleanup

here? That seems like a much clearer, simpler piece of advice to give people?

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