[Labs-l] Spring Cleaning

[Filippo Giunchedi]

(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 <jcrespo at wikimedia.org> 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 <abogott at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > On 3/6/16 8:02 AM, Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) wrote:
> >
> > On 5 March 2016 at 20:18, Mr. Maximilian Doerr <
> maximilian.doerr at gmail.com>
> > 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.
> >
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