# Why the forums takes full of total 20Gb of disk?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-the-forums-takes-full-of-total-20gb-of-disk/41294>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [March 19, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-the-forums-takes-full-of-total-20gb-of-disk/41294 "2016-03-19T08:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![fantasticfears](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fantasticfears/32/119608_2.png) [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-the-forums-takes-full-of-total-20gb-of-disk/41294/2 "2016-03-19T09:00:14Z")

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Well, docker needs space when you rebuild discourse.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-on-disk-space-cleaning-up-old-docker-containers/15792/29?u=fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-on-disk-space-cleaning-up-old-docker-containers/15792/29)

Basically, you just need to run `./launcher cleanup`.

Discourse has a reasonable upload size limit. It may not be the problem (you can check the remaining space on your dashboard).

BTW, it’s not a “howto” topic, plz move it to “support”.

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