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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 103 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago
[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] rmrf@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

paccache -r got me about the same

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, that reminds me,...