Running Out of Disk Space in Production
by romes on 4/3/2026, 2:42:28 PM
https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2026-04-01-running-out-of-disk-space-on-launch.html
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by: flanfly
A neat trick I was told is to always have ballast files on your systems. Just a few GiB of zeros that you can delete in cases like this. This won't fix the problem, but will buy you time and free space for stuff like lock files so you can get a working system.
4/7/2026, 11:50:36 AM
by: bdcravens
I appreciate the last line<p>> Note: this was written fully by me, human.
4/7/2026, 1:39:16 PM
by: huijzer
> Plausible Analytics, with a 8.5GB (clickhouse) database<p>And this is why I tried Plausible once and never looked back.<p>To get basic but effective analytics, use GoAccess and point it at the Caddy or Nginx logs. It’s written in C and thus barely uses memory. With a few hundreds visits per day, the logs are currently 10 MB per day. Caddy will automatically truncate if logs go above 100 MB.
4/7/2026, 1:36:57 PM
by: entropie
> I rushed to run du -sh on everything I could, as that’s as good as I could manage.<p>I recently came across gdu (1) and have installed/used it on every machine since then.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/dundee/gdu" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dundee/gdu</a>
4/7/2026, 12:37:36 PM
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by: tcp_handshaker
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