# How to increase disk space
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** server-resources
**Created:** [December 6, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276 "2019-12-06T15:47:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Jakira](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jakira)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/1 "2019-12-06T15:47:11Z")
I have installed discourse & when I log into admin panel I can see free space is 4.7 GB which seems quite small to me. Server is host in my local machine & I have 50 GB total my current disk drive.
I have another disk which is 50GB which can be mounted to any folder.
How can I increase it?
### [Backups]
257.1 MB (4.7 GB free)
3 backups on Local Storage
Latest: 13 hours ago
### Uploads
9.4 MB (4.7 GB free)
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### Author:  [@Jakira](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jakira)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/2 "2019-12-06T15:49:11Z")
```
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 798M 18M 781M 3% /run
/dev/sda1 52G 44G 4.7G 91% /
tmpfs 3.9G 1.2M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1 20G 8.5G 11G 46% /var/lib/docker
/dev/sda3 50G 138M 47G 1% /var/discourse/shared/standalone2
tmpfs 798M 32K 798M 1% /run/user/108
tmpfs 798M 0 798M 0% /run/user/1000
none 20G 8.5G 11G 46% /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/a7bca0843583fb5792ba29b4eab614e6b5cfab58b3b1f0ce69d2da7dde8f8f53
shm 512M 8.0K 512M 1% /var/lib/docker/containers/1e96d5d7adc41e50848903da415b8e664538cfb6cf7ff84e0f933d0944921578/shm
```
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/3 "2019-12-06T15:50:03Z")
```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher cleanup
```
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### Author:  [@Jakira](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jakira)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/4 "2019-12-06T15:50:51Z")
@pfaffman
Can’t I add more disk space?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/5 "2019-12-06T15:51:40Z")
Probably, but Discourse can’t do that.
Is there a reason not to delete unused docker images and containers?
Oh, sorry. You could edit `app.yml`
```plaintext
volumes:
- volume:
host: /some/other/path/standalone
guest: /shared
- volume:
host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log
guest: /var/log
```
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### Author:  [@Jakira](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jakira)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/6 "2019-12-06T15:52:45Z")
what will do ./launcher cleanup action. from where it delete files?
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### Author:  [@Jakira](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jakira)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/7 "2019-12-06T15:55:09Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> ./launcher cleanup
can I use `/var/discourse/shared/standalone2` since I have newly mapped drive?
what actions should I take after this change in` app.yml`
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### Author:  [@Jakira](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jakira)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/8 "2019-12-06T17:36:32Z")
This worked.
But it is a new site. I had to restore from old.
Thanks @pfaffman
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-disk-space/135276/9 "2020-01-05T17:47:09Z")
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