$ cd lemmy-dir
$ du -sh *
456K lemmy-ui
15G pictrs
4.3G postgres
Guys this is no longer funny please I feel literally chased by the “no space left” message. Please help I don’t need those pics I did not upload them
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I ran this query:
(replace with your instance’s url)
I then sent delete requests to /internal/purge on pictrs to delete all of those old thumbnails, which cleared out a lot of space. After deleting the thumbnails I ran an
UPDATE
query to set all of those old thumbnail URLs tonull
in the DB. I also patched the version of lemmy that I run to stop caching thumbnails in the future. Hope this helps!