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by COGlory 997 days ago
I just went through a HUGE pain in the ass with my homeserver. I was on the Hetzner cloud plan and at the highest storage tier already. I had about 80 GB free, and setup sliding sync. It filled up the remaining space (unbeknownst to me) and my homeserver stopped working. Fortunately I was still able to login, but no disk space was available for the Postgres vacuum. I wound up having to rsync everything over to my desktop, setting up Docker on my desktop, running the compression tools on my desktop, and re-uploading. I now have a 20GB dummy file on that server.
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Running out of disk space (or inodes!) is probably how everyone running a server learns about monitoring and alerts