run out of disk space

[nottheend]

Anyone else observing that cloudron grows over time? After maybe 6 to 8 month it looks like below.
I have 8 apps installed, all the app data sums up to not more than 50 MB. Only exception is the platformdata with 1 GB.

Is there anything I can do to reduce it?
I have another free volume availble, but I am not sure what I can use it for to release /root, which is /dev/sda1 mounted at /

• docker 16 GB
• /apps.swap 4 GB
• docker-volumes 4 GB
• Everything else (Ubuntu, etc) 8 GB

[RazielKanos]

for me it's:
docker 23.7 GB
docker-volumes 12.58 GB
/apps.swap 4.29 GB
platformdata 1.48 GB
nextcloud 1.26 GB
immich 463.9 MB
Wordpress 365.28 MB
Mastodon 275.26 MB
Pixelfed 86.99 MB
boxdata 14.79 MB
maildata 2.9 MB
bitwarden 368.64 kB
pdf 90.11 kB
officeserver 32.77 kB
Typebot 12.29 kB
Chatwoot 12.29 kB
Kutt 8.19 kB
Pairdrop 4.1 kB
Everything else (Ubuntu, etc) 11.66 GB

No clue why the first are so large

[nottheend]

Thanks. Then my server is probably not an exception. Just trying to plan the storage needed for the cloudron backend a bit ahead, which I find difficult as of now

[nottheend]

After moving to a new server, the exact same config restored from the backup has only 30GB disk usage, compared to 38GB before

Edited this post after waiting for recreation of the storage utilization

[jagadeesh-s2104]

@nottheend @RazielKanos -

I have the same problem as well.

I will create a backup, stop the VM, then use the backup settings file to create a new VM and restore the backup settings file in the new instance of Cloudron.

I've been using Cloudron for about 3 years, and I have done this around 4 or 5 times.

The Docker images, overlay, etc., are the headache.
For me, it will balloon to 70+ GB, and if I restore, it will be around 40 GB.

[timconsidine]

Does docker image prune help here, to avoid reinstalling ?-

[RazielKanos]

any feedback from the devs? @nebulon @girish

[jagadeesh-s2104]

@timconsidine Yes, thank you!

I do that with other VMs. But I remember reading somewhere that we should not do anything with the Cloudron VM.

[timconsidine]

@jagadeesh-s2104 said in run out of disk space:

@timconsidine Yes, thank you!

I do that with other VMs. But I remember reading somewhere that we should not do anything with the Cloudron VM.

Yes, generally you don’t need to and shouldn’t do something on the server command line, but I think this is an exception. @staff will jump in here to clarify.

[girish]

For the space taken up by docker volumes, this is a bug and fix is already in the upcoming release. You can run docker volume prune --all --force to free up that space. You can do an additional docker system prune -a to clear up stale images etc.

Otherwise, the space usage looks normal to me. Nothing stands out.

[alpro]

@girish Can I run the command today? Or it has not been implemented yet? Is it correct if I SSH to the server and run the command as the admin from there?

[necrevistonnezr]

Yes, that’s a build-in docker command that you can run in your ssh terminal