(I've deleted test-prometheus1 as part of the spring cleaning) in addition to the trick proposed by Jaime, if the filesystem is unmounted, I've used zerofree in the past with success https://packages.debian.org/jessie/zerofree
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Jaime Crespo <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried this? Seems a bit hacky, but it seems the solution to > your problem: > > <http://serverfault.com/a/329671/183203> > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Andrew Bogott <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 3/6/16 8:02 AM, Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) wrote: > > > > On 5 March 2016 at 20:18, Mr. Maximilian Doerr < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> 38G 523df61c-07f0-41ba-924d-e2b8e474b4d7 tools-exec-cyberbot tools > marc > >> > >> What on Earth could Cyberbot be generating? Nothing in its folder > amounts > >> to that size!!!! > > > > > > The storage is 'flexible', but it doesn't shrink. This means that if you > > have a 80GB disk, with only 20GB filled, it will use 20GB on the VM > server. > > If you then fill the disk, it will use 80GB on the VM server. However, if > > you now delete 60GB of data, it will still use 80GB on the VM server. > Andrew > > pointed out in an earlier email that it's possible to reclaim the space > by > > shutting down the instance and compressing it, or by creating a new > > instance. > > > > I ran a test of this on Friday and the recompressing process (qemu-img > > convert -O qcow2) didn't actually save me much space -- the instance had > > about 50 Gb of 'empty' space in it but recomressing only recaptured about > > 2Gb. I'm not sure if there's a better process than the one I'm using; > it > > is nonetheless useful to delete unneeded files, though, since it prevents > > future footprint growth. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Labs-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > > > > > -- > Jaime Crespo > <http://wikimedia.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >
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