# Uninstalling discourse instance

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/uninstalling-discourse-instance/128637>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [September 15, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uninstalling-discourse-instance/128637 "2019-09-15T18:39:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThrashAbaddon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thrashabaddon/32/274085_2.png) [@ThrashAbaddon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ThrashAbaddon)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uninstalling-discourse-instance/128637/11 "2022-09-15T12:39:41Z")

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One interesting thing, if I want to stop and destroy the app it will try to download another base image. What the hell? 😄

```plaintext
:/var/discourse> sudo ./launcher stop app
x86_64 arch detected.

WARNING: We are about to start downloading the Discourse base image
This process may take anywhere between a few minutes to an hour, depending on your network speed

Please be patient

2.0.20220818-0047: Pulling from discourse/base
Digest: sha256:7734701087766821ffb2ddcef423754798bd345c2ac0d550131c6e6905c268e8
Status: Downloaded newer image for discourse/base:2.0.20220818-0047
docker.io/discourse/base:2.0.20220818-0047
You have less than 5GB of free space on the disk where /var/lib/docker is located. You will need more space to continue
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-var 9.8G 4.9G 4.4G 53% /var

Would you like to attempt to recover space by cleaning docker images and containers in the system? (y/N)y
If the cleanup was successful, you may try again now

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