My rebuild failed due to lack of disk space so I need to free up some space. But I’m stuck in a loop: ./launcher cleanup frees up sufficient space to be above 5 GB. So I start a rebuild but that then fills up the recovered space again so that it fails to complete. See below. How do I get things run…

docker rm -f aa6b422d88ca docker rm -f 1fba0860cbc3 ./launcher cleanup ./launcher rebuild data ./launcher rebuild web_only But really the root cause here is that you are just way too tight on disk space. I would recommend doubling the size /dev/mappper/vg-lv_root

Anything not in use by a running container is usually safe enough, as far as Discourse is concerned, because it’ll be re-downloaded and/or rebuilt when you do the needful. There’s not a huge pile of images there, though; it’s probably time for you to get a disk upgrade.

[image] mpalmer: because it’ll be re-downloaded and/or rebuilt when you do the needful. So deleting discourse containers is always safe? [image] mpalmer: it’s probably time for you to get a disk upgrade. Not really. This is a tiny and very low activity forum that has hardly grown in t…

Is there any way I can stop it from downloading the latest discourse base image every time I try to rebuild or start the app? I’d like it to just use the old one for now so that I can go to bed…

[image] tophee: Is there any way I can stop it from downloading the latest discourse base image every time I try to rebuild or start the app It only downloads it if it is not on local, we really only download an image once. We only bump the required image once every few months in launcher. Th…

Okay, so is there any way I can get rid of one of those images? I surely don’t need two base images?

Sure… Have you ran ./launcher cleanup it will purge all images not in use.

[image] pfaffman: How much disk space do you have? $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 476M 0 476M 0% /dev tmpfs 100M 8.9M 91M 9% /run /dev/mapper/vg-lv_root 19G 14G 4.1G 77% / tmpfs 497…

My suggestion here then if you are ULTRA tight on space is just to go nuclear and and start from scratch. What is the output of docker ps, you basically need to kill your app container so you can free up the old base image.

$ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 1fba0860cbc3 local_discourse/web_only "/sbin/boot" 5 months ago Up 29 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 31, 2018, 12:27am 9

How much disk space do you have?

Can you delete some backups?

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