Hello, The installation claims I don’t have enough space, but I have [image] Earlier I have stat error : [image] So I think I need to install a special version of stat ? Host is an Alpine

I think you may be looking in the wrong place for free space, do you see anything different with df -h /var/lib/docker if you don’t have enough space there, you can try ./launcher cleanup from /var/discourse to remove old images

Good idea if you can to share text, not screenshots, so these things can be searched on.

[image] mixman68: Host is an Alpine This may be why it isn’t working properly then, I think that the launcher script expects you are running on Debian/Ubuntu. It seems like your stat error is from the BusyBox version of stat not recognizing the format flag here: launcher main …

The idea that the docker container isn’t actually portable between distros is confusing as that is what docker is for, works “everywhere docker is”. Instead of using stat, the launcher script could use df as that outputs identical information on Alpine and Ubuntu.

[image] JustinZ: The idea that the docker container isn’t actually portable between distros is confusing as that is what docker is for, works “everywhere docker is”. Fair, because: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub suggests 64-bit Linux is the basic requi…

Bug in discourse launcher

Support Self-hosting

merefield (Robert) September 25, 2026, 10:33am 6

Fair, because:

discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub suggests 64-bit Linux is the basic requirement (even though Ubuntu is “recommended”)

Topic		Replies	Views
Stat usage in launcher not cross-distro compatible Support	2	42	September 25, 2026
Docker installation not working Self-hosting	16	5461	November 4, 2016
'launcher' fails - limited storage - launcher destroy app Self-hosting	2	602	March 8, 2022
Can't install Discourse with only 10 GB disk, run out of space Self-hosting docker , server-resources	42	13533	September 6, 2017
You have less than 5GB of free space on the disk. You will need more space to continue Self-hosting server-resources	7	3618	October 18, 2023

Bug in discourse launcher

Related topics