[SOLVED] Local storage shown as "full" without ISOs

[thimplicity]

Hi,
My local storage that is used for the ISOs is shown as 80% full, although I deleted all ISOs. Before I deleted the files, I got an error message "storage is full" with every proxmox activity. I tried to upload a large image file twice today and it aborted twice? Are the remains of those image still lingering somewhere on the disk? I checked "/var/liv/vz" but all folders are empty.



What can I do to clean this up?

Thanks!

 

[Dunuin]

Check the /var/tmp folder for partial uploads and do a fstrim -a for discard.

 

[thimplicity]

Check the /var/tmp folder for partial uploads and do a fstrim -a for discard.

That worked from a command perspective, but it is still shown as nearly full:

 

[bbgeek17]

Are you sure there is nothing else thats taking the space?
Assuming the issue is /var, does the output of "sudo du -h -d1 /var" give any clues?
You can also try "sudo du -h -d1 -x /" and drill down from there.

You can also be experiencing this: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2316

On Linux or Unix systems, deleting a file via rm or through a file manager application will unlink the file from the file system's directory structure; however, if the file is still open (in use by a running process) it will still be accessible to this process and will continue to occupy space on disk. Therefore such processes may need to be restarted before that file's space will be cleared up on the filesystem.​

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[thimplicity]

Are you sure there is nothing else thats taking the space?
Assuming the issue is /var, does the output of "sudo du -h -d1 /var" give any clues?
You can also try "sudo du -h -d1 -x /" and drill down from there.

You can also be experiencing this: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2316

On Linux or Unix systems, deleting a file via rm or through a file manager application will unlink the file from the file system's directory structure; however, if the file is still open (in use by a running process) it will still be accessible to this process and will continue to occupy space on disk. Therefore such processes may need to be restarted before that file's space will be cleared up on the filesystem.​

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Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

There is one file in /var/tmp that is bigger than a few kb:

-rw-------  1 www-data www-data 9797550080 Feb 11 12:24 pveupload-0681c501e92731fd3427dfd0c884e120

Can I just delete that one?

 

[Dunuin]

Sounds like a failed ISO upload. So I guess yes if you aren't uploaded any ISOs right now.

 

[thimplicity]

Sounds like a failed ISO upload. So I guess yes if you aren't uploaded any ISOs right now.

That was it - nice and empty. Thanks everyone!