I’m running a small instance just for myself and a friend. We basically use it to access the Lemmy fediverse.

I was under the impression that our instance would not download imagery that was not hosted on it but the pict-rs “files” directory ended up with 45 gig of data which ultimately filled up the VPS storage space.

Is there a command that I can automate to prune this regularly or does anyone have a solution?

  • Pleonasm@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Can you just run a cronjob to delete files in that directory every day?

    (Maybe there’s a reason you can’t do this, I don’t know how Lemmy instance works)

  • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    I just took a look at the repository for pict-rs and unfortunately nothing in the official docs about cleaning up images. Did you happen to use a bot to assist you in finding communities? If so this might be the reason. After two weeks of running, my image size is only 2.2mb. I should also ask you what the size of your database is. The activity table can get awfully big and very quickly.