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[Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Added as https://wiki.canonical.com/UbuntuEngineering/CI/Playbook#Destroying_old_containers

Thanks Francis.

On 24 February 2014 22:45, Francis Ginther
<francis.ginther@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Evan, that was probably the best action. If there is no extra
> containers to remove, then the only course I can think of is to clean
> out the latest container's tmp files:
> /var/lib/lxc/[lxc container name]/run/delta/tmp
>
> /tmp is where the temporary autopilot recordings are stored, which can
> take up a big chunk of space.
>
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Evan Dandrea
> <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Nagios flipped out over the weekend when ps-nvidia-gt630 used up most
>> of its disk. It looks like the trusty-amd64-20131210-1707 container
>> was most to blame, as it was 150-200G. I dug around and it seems like
>> otto only uses the most recent matching container (which this was
>> not), so I destroyed it:
>>
>> ubuntu@ps-nvidia-gt630:~$ sudo lxc-destroy --name trusty-amd64-20131210-1707
>>
>> We're now back down to 34% disk usage.
>>
>> If anyone sees this causing problems, please do let me know. Equally,
>> if this was the right thing to do, I'd appreciate confirmation so I
>> can get it in the playbook.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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