[Podman] Re: Follow-up: Rootless storage usage

On 12/30/22 08:35, Михаил Иванов wrote: > > You could do a podman system reset and then remove all content > > from the storage with > > rm -rf  ~/.local/share/containers > > To make sure there is nothing hidden there, > But that's almost exactly what I did: > > I just purged the whole storage using podman system reset. > > I verified that ~/.local/share/containers became empty > > (only bolt database was still remaining using about 200Mb space) > > I'm using whatever storage was provided by default podman install > (debian sid/bookworm) podman is 4.3.1 How can I reconfigure it to > different type? I assumed this has to be done in storage.conf but > this file is not present anywhere at all. I have no idea why debian would be choosing VFS, unless this is an older version of debian and did not support rootless overaly.  You could try installling fuse-overlayfs and doing another reset, then Podman info should show you using overlay with fuse-overlayfs. > Best regards, > On 29.12.2022 15:04, Daniel Walsh wrote: >> On 12/27/22 13:19, Михаил Иванов wrote: >>> Hallo again, >>> I just purged the whole storage using podman system reset. >>> I verified that ~/.local/share/containers became empty >>> (only bolt database was still remaining using about 200Mb space) >>> I have run 2 containers from docker.io: ibmcom/db2 and ibmcom/db2console. >>> podman system df reports space usage by images 4Gb and by containers 6Mb. >>> podman images command shows consistent values (two images, 2.83Gb + 1.21Gb) >>> system df command shows that 32Gb is used on ~/.local/share/containers filesystem >>> du shows that all this space is located under ~/.local/share/containers/storage/vfs/dir >>> This directory contains 32 subdirs, 11 subdirs of 1.1Gb each, 6 subdirs of 2.6Gb each, >>> rest subdirs take anywhere from 94Mb to 646Mb >>> When I try to diff -rw for directories of same size, I see only reports for missing >>> symlink files, but never real file differences. >>> No real activity was performed with podman apart from running these two containers. >>> I am running podman 4.3.1 on debian bookworm (kernel 6.0.8) >>> >>> What is wrong? >> >> I guess the first question I would have for you is why are you using >> VFS storage? And not overlay or fuse-overlay? >> >> Could there be other containers or storage that is un-accounted >> for?  Did you do any podman builds?  Or Buildah? >> >> >> ``` >> $ podman ps --all >> CONTAINER ID  IMAGE COMMAND           CREATED     STATUS PORTS       >> NAMES >> 2e7070eacb0f  docker.io/library/alpine:latest  touch /dan/walsh  6 >> days ago  Exited (0) 6 days ago nervous_noether >> $ podman ps --all --external >> CONTAINER ID  IMAGE COMMAND           CREATED         STATUS >> PORTS       NAMES >> 2e7070eacb0f  docker.io/library/alpine:latest  touch /dan/walsh  6 >> days ago      Exited (0) 6 days ago              nervous_noether >> 9478fed6d8db  docker.io/library/alpine:latest buildah           14 >> seconds ago Storage                            alpine-working-container >> ``` >> >> You could do a podman system reset and then remove all content from >> the storage with >> >> rm -rf  ~/.local/share/containers >> >>  To make sure there is nothing hidden there, >> >> >> Other then that I am not sure what could be showing the difference >> in storage. >> >>> Best regards, >>> -- >>> On 23.12.2022 19:43, Михаил Иванов wrote: >>>> Hallo, >>>> I notice some disk space discrepancy when running rootless podman containers. >>>> I use dedicated fs for podman storage mountrd to ~/.local/share/containers. >>>> df and du show consistent used disk space: >>>>   island:named [master]> df -h ~/.local/share/containers >>>>   /dev/mapper/sys-containers   117G          84G   32G           73% ~/.local/share/containers >>>> >>>>   island:named [master]> sudo du -sh ~/.local/share/containers/storage/{vfs,volumes} >>>>   74G    /home/ivans/.local/share/containers/storage/vfs >>>>   11G    /home/ivans/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes >>>>   island:named [master]> >>>> But space usage shown by podman system df is about 44% less than reported above: >>>> >>>> island:named [master]> podman system df >>>> TYPE TOTAL ACTIVE SIZE RECLAIMABLE >>>> Images 32 5 39.49GB 25.96GB (66%) >>>> Containers 7 7 1.85GB 0B (0%) >>>> Local Volumes 2 2 10.83GB 0B (0%) >>>> >>>> Volume space is practically same, it's vfs space (where as I understand images >>>> and containers are located) that differs. >>>> I also run buildah as same user, but buildah ls shows nothing. >>>> I have ran podman system prune, but it reclaimed 0 bytes. >>>> So is this extra space usage expected? Or is it sthing wrong with my storage? >>>> Thanks and regards, >>>> -- >>>> Michael Ivanov >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Podman mailing list --podman(a)lists.podman.io >>>> To unsubscribe send an email topodman-leave(a)lists.podman.io >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Podman mailing list --podman(a)lists.podman.io >>> To unsubscribe send an email topodman-leave(a)lists.podman.io >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Podman mailing list --podman(a)lists.podman.io >> To unsubscribe send an email topodman-leave(a)lists.podman.io > > _______________________________________________ > Podman mailing list --podman(a)lists.podman.io > To unsubscribe send an email topodman-leave(a)lists.podman.io _______________________________________________ Podman mailing list --podman(a)lists.podman.io To unsubscribe send an email topodman-leave(a)lists.podman.io