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How do i see the storage space used by media on my server? (lemmy.spronkus.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by danakongur@lemmy.spronkus.xyz to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I made an instance following the tutorial for docker. Now i really want to track the storage space my instance is using (mostly out of curiosity), but i can't find any way to (quickly) check the storage used by pictrs. Checking the directory size takes way too long.

Maybe it's obvious and I just missed it but idk.

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[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I use ‘du -Lhs’ to check directory size. How long does it take for you to run that command? The only time I’ve ever run into a ‘du’ command taking a long time is when running it over the network to a slow-ass 2010-era system in California for a project I was doing at work with hundreds of terabytes of data and millions of files.

[–] danakongur@lemmy.spronkus.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

last time i tried it took like 20 minutes, when it's just around 2GiB.

i thought it might be because the folder is on a hdd, so i tested moving the entire thing to an ssd and lo and behold, du only took 15 seconds there. too bad I don't have enough disk space on the ssd to keep the folder there, so i guess I'll just suffer. the files are probably fragmented over the entire drive or something, idk.