How to clean the n8n since the disk is full

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The size has decreased to 4,59 GB :metal: :metal: :metal:

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is it normal total size, about 5 GB ?

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I checked mine and is about 3.5GB so idk. For sure is better, but I would say it’s something weird about it

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Any other ideas what can be removed or cleaned ?

Anyway, thank you @Shirobachi a lot for your help!!!

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show what’s inside /var/libs please

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This will remove unused dependences sudo apt-get autoremove about docker give me some time

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5974putty_portable

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How many containers / images do you run ?
One other machine where I have 5 containers /var/lib take 6GB, now I assume it’s notmal size

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Hi @Mikhail,

I couldn’t read whole topic but did you check Docker logs? To prevent larger log files I’m using this command while creating Docker container.

Hope it helps…

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I don’t quite understand what you mean…

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Ji @samaritan Sorry, How can I check Docker logs?

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Type: docker-compose logs to see container logs or docker-compose logs | wc -l to count logs

Do you have something else or only n8n?

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only n8n.

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Not bad or logs are checked somehow else, can you help @samaritan

In that case I have no clue what can take that space, maybe at the morning someone with more experience will help. I hope I helped at least a bit

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Are you kidding me? You just saved my life! :+1: :grinning:
Thank you @Shirobachi so much for your time and help!

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Hi @Mikhail,

Here is the path of your logs;

/var/lib/docker/containers/<container_id>/

You can find your container id via this command

docker ps

You can delete log files using this command one by one.

rm {logfilename}

After you removed them check your disk space again. If the root cause is log files, you can use the log configuration parameters that I’ve shared above.

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They are very small - 1Mb

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
d38f4c5eb699 n8nio/n8n “tini – /docker-ent…” 47 minutes ago Up 47 minutes 127.0.0.1:5678->5678/tcp root-n8n-1
af5f6bdc96b7 traefik “/entrypoint.sh --ap…” 47 minutes ago Up 47 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/ tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp root-traefik-1

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Can you try following command?

docker ps -f status=exited -q | xargs -r docker rm && docker images -f dangling=true -q | xargs -r docker rmi