Out of Disk Space

Lionel Seaw

We have started using Confluence for about one year now and we have configured 500gb of disk space to support the application. This is runnig on Ubuntu. Last week, we started encountering issues uploading files and further investigation shows the partition is full

We are not a heavy user of the the system and i am unable to understand how the space can run out so quickly

How do i check the disk utilization in terms of spaces and pages and what can i do to recover from this situation?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There's two usual culprits - attachments and logs.  Ideally, logs should have some form of log rotation on them, but sometimes this is removed or not implemented.  Check <confluence home>/logs and <confluence install>/log to see what is in there.

If that's not the problem, then have a look at the files in <confluence home>/attachments

As you're on a unix-style system, the command line can be used for a quick and easy display of sizes -

cd /<confluence home>/attachments

du -d 1 -h

This will list the current directories in attachments with their sizes (the -h makes it report a more human readable Mb and Gb instead of the whole number, and the "-d 1" means "only look 1 directory deep").