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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I freed 50gb by running 'docker system prune'...

[–] Joelk111 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm new to docker and all of my shit stopped working recently. Just wouldn't load. Took about a half hour to find out that old images were taking up about 63GB on my 100GB boot partition, resulting in it being completely full.

I added the command to prune 3 month old images to my update scripts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, it's really not called out in the docs. I found out the same way.

[–] eager_eagle 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

last year I had over 1TB freed by docker system prune on a dev VM. If you're building images often, that's a mandatory command to run once in a while.

[–] folekaule 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I create a cron job with something like: docker system prune -af --filter="until=XXh" where XX is on the order of a few days.

[–] eager_eagle 4 points 2 days ago

ah, this filter by timestamp might be very useful to me, thanks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Oh hey thanks for reminding me, freed 5GB which should buy me a bit of time on upgrading the server I use for this lemmy instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

paccache -r got me about the same

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oh, that reminds me,...