Hi To do maintenance on my Discourse instances, I tried to use ./launcher cleanup app command, but it seems to be blocked : I launched the command minutes ago, and nothing happens (and no space is freed on the disk). (I reproduce the problem on multiple up-to-date instances) Can the command be …

Yes, I can confirm this. Whatever ./launcher cleanup is trying to do, it’s just hanging now @saj root@endoffice-a:/var/discourse# ./launcher cleanup app ^C It looks like we replaced the old spotify/docker-gc with the built in Docker command $docker_path system prune -a That seems to work fine …

Hi @samyrabih , Sorry about that! This has been fixed . Please git pull the latest launcher and try again.

Confirmed! Fix works for me, thanks @saj :clinking_beer_mugs:

Cleanup command very long

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Confirmed! Fix works for me, thanks @saj

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