I have a 50GB droplet that has been running fine for years currently 11.7GB of uploads. As of a couple weeks ago I had at least 15-20ishGB free. I was in admin one day after being absent for a week or so and saw that I only had 700MB free (with a 5ishGB backup), I deleted that now I only have 5.7GB …

could it simply be some old kernels ? sudo apt autoremove ? maybe the logs ?

Hi ! Did you check your backups folder if there’s no broken/temp backup that takes space? It happened to me several times. To check where the disk space goes, I use the command line tool ncdu. This is how I figured out my issues. Note: If you ran out of disk space, don’t forget to verify that the …

You can try sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M I saved several GB on a 1GB/25GB system with that recently. But if you’re making a backup that includes the 12GB uploads, that’ll take roughly twice that to make a backup, and a couple of backups will likely fill your disk.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: But if you’re making a backup that includes the 12GB uploads, that’ll take roughly twice that to make a backup, and a couple of backups will likely fill your disk. I don’t have any backups saved on site I usually keep the newest one (which is 5.8ishGB) and delete the old…

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: Hi ! Did you check your backups folder if there’s no broken/temp backup that takes space? It happened to me several times. I checked the backup folder and there’s a handful of random files, the largest is 700MB dpkg.status.0 and then 6 (sequential) dpkg.status.1.…

Did you run the command I recommend earlier about the journal? Run your ncdu from root and see where the stuff is.

Specifically I’d recommend running du -kx / | sort -n | tail -49 or similar, on your server, as root. You need a tactic which looks at what’s actually going on, without assumptions. While you’re at the command line, I’d suggest df -mT free And even docker system df docker images I’m concerned…

I'm not sure where all my space went

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