I was running out of space on a 50GB Linode VPS.
Below are some space hogs that haven’t been mentioned yet. Some are Discourse-specific, some are general to Linux systems.
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Run
ll /lib/modules. I was surprised to see about 15GB of old kernels thatapt autoremovedidn’t care to remove. Claude thinks they were installed in a non-standard way, and generated a safe removal script. It took about an hour but it worked (run at your own risk, of course) and I was able to run./launcher rebuildwithout theno space left on deviceerror. -
The script didn’t delete the corresponding headers in
/usr/src. For that ChatGPT created another script. -
About half a gigabyte of space was taken by useless locales.
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Another GB+ was taken by the
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/.../merged/home/discourse/.cachedirectory.
Maybe a stupid question, but what exactly do the merge and diff directories contain? Can one of them be deleted safely at some point?
