So, in the process of recovering from a disk-full situation during an otherwise normal Discourse upgrade, I realized that we are apparently using the “devicemapper” Docker storage driver, which seems to be heavily discouraged for Discourse, as I gather from other threads here. What would be the rec…

Any solution found here? I seem to be in the same boat. I have a fairly large community running on this and looking to upgrade.

I didn’t find one… that (very small) Discourse installation worked fine while it lasted, but it’s long gone now, and I haven’t touched AMI Linux since then :slight_smile:

Can you post/search on forums.docker.com and link the related post here?

How to switch from Docker devicemapper to something less problematic

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volksman August 2, 2018, 11:00pm 5

All good…Found a solution here How to change storage backend in Docker

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How to switch from Docker devicemapper to something less problematic

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