Discourse image and installation size. Clean /var/lib/docker/overlay2?

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I’ll be interested to know what’s the meaning of the <none> docker image. (Edit: it seems, if a <none> image shows up in docker images -a that’s not too important, but if it shows up in docker images then it is a waste of space. I would hope launcher cleanup would help, but it hasn’t helped you…)

Note that the overlay filesystem usage as seen by df matches the usage of the root filesystem: there’s a lot of data doing double duty and you need to take care not to double-count. In your case the available space is 3.2G and that’s the figure to worry about. There might well be some tidying up to do.

I’ll show my similar stats below. I have two forums, each on a different host. One host has 20G and the other has 25G of space. I think 15G might prove to be very tight, especially when the update process demands 5G free space before starting.

# df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1        25G   19G  5.1G  79% /

# docker images -a
REPOSITORY            TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
local_discourse/app   latest              8da0107aba03        2 months ago        2.7GB
discourse/base        2.0.20210415-1332   30e4746e631e        3 months ago        2.23GB
<none>                <none>              1e6bf44c2762        5 months ago        2.46GB
discourse/base        2.0.20201221-2020   c0704d4ce2b4        7 months ago        2.11GB


# du -shc /var/lib/docker/overlay2/*/diff
2.2G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/05fa0e4df2...
76M 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/58b000b1f5c...
20K  	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/6271023fc7a...
1.1G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/6271023fc7...
2.3G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/91d6adf7ad...
481M	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/b6b06a7cee...
592M	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/d81e44d563...
76M 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/fb98649680b...
6.8G	total


# du -shc /var/lib/docker/overlay2/*
2.2G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/05fa0e4df2...
76M 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/58b000b1f5c...
4.7G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/6271023fc7...
40K  	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/6271023fc7a...
2.3G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/91d6adf7ad...
481M	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/b6b06a7cee...
592M	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/d81e44d563...
76M 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/fb98649680b...
36K  	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/l
11G	total


# docker system df
TYPE                TOTAL               ACTIVE              SIZE                RECLAIMABLE
Images              4                   1                   5.155GB             4.689GB (90%)
Containers          1                   1                   1.059GB             0B (0%)
Local Volumes       0                   0                   0B                  0B
Build Cache         0                   0                   0B                  0B

See perhaps also Fixing discourse after disk full :

and Minimum requirements to use Discourse? :

and 2.6.0 beta 3 update failed on disk and/or memory space:

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