The virtual disk for my lemmy instance filled up which caused lemmy to throw a lot of errors. I resized the disk and expanded the filesystem but now the pictrs container is constantly restarting.

root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# le 
less         lessecho     lessfile     lesskey      lesspipe     let          letsencrypt  lexgrog      
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# ls
leemyalone.org
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# cd leemyalone.org/
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy/leemyalone.org# docker-compose ps
          Name                        Command                 State                           Ports                      
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leemyaloneorg_lemmy-ui_1   docker-entrypoint.sh /bin/ ...   Up           1234/tcp                                        
leemyaloneorg_lemmy_1      /app/lemmy                       Up                                                           
leemyaloneorg_pictrs_1     /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/b ...   Restarting                                                   
leemyaloneorg_postfix_1    /root/run                        Up           25/tcp                                          
leemyaloneorg_postgres_1   docker-entrypoint.sh postgres    Up           5432/tcp                                        
leemyaloneorg_proxy_1      /docker-entrypoint.sh ngin ...   Up           80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:3378->8536/tcp,:::3378->8536/tcp
john armoredcore
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pictrs database is completely separate from lemmy database. If you want you just delete everything in the pictrs volume and start afresh. You will lose all images though.

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There’s only two local posts on my instance so i’m not worried about losing thoseabout.

Will the pictrs from subscribed communities in other instances be restored after a db reset?

john armoredcore
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pictrs from subscribed communities in other instances

Dont worry about those. Those images are not stored by your pictrs instance. They are directly fetched from the native instances.

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OK. I just deleted the pictrs folder from srv/lemmy/leemyalone.org/volumes but I am still having the same issue.

john armoredcore
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You’ll have to check again. My guess is though you should not have deleted the pictrs folders. Just its contents. You can recreate the folder again though:

mkdir pictrs
sudo chown 991:991 pictrs

But check the logs first.

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In my previous comment I should have mentioned that I did recreate the pictrs folder. Your instruction to change set the ownership of the pictures folder to 991:991 did the trick.

Thank you so much for your help here. Much appreciated.

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