Disk Cleanup Guidance for App Server at 94% — Already Pruned, Need Next Steps

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Hi Team,

Our self-hosted Frappe Cloud App server has hit 94% disk usage, and I’ve already done the following:

  • Ran docker system prune -a --volumes --force
  • Verified active containers are small (~10–50MB)
  • Checked /var/lib/docker/buildkit → only 619MB
  • No significant unused volumes
  • Docker images are the largest — several bench-* images (2.5–4.2GB), some with multiple layers

Looking for guidance on:

  • Safely identifying and removing old/unneeded bench-* images
  • Any Press-specific cleanup or GC functionality I may have missed
  • Other common space hogs in /home/frappe/ or within the Press ecosystem

Disk usage:

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/dev/sda1       338G  303G   21G  94%

@corentin bro …Appreciate any help to safely free up space without affecting active benches/sites.

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I found something

root@App-server:~# du -sh /home/frappe/*

602M /home/frappe/agent

128G /home/frappe/archived

93G /home/frappe/benches

The archived has 128GB how can i safely remove this

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There is a build cache that can be cleared with docker builder prune:

docker container prune
docker image prune -a
docker builder prune -a
docker volume prune

You can safely remove the contents of the archived directory /home/frappe/archived, don’t delete the dir itself:

cd /home/frappe/archived/
for bench in bench-*; do
    [[ -d "$bench" ]] || continue
    rm -rf "$bench"
done
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Thanks a lot brother you are a life saver :people_hugging:

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Which registry provider are you using ?
What is your total cost per month for storing 300G + data ?

6

Its not reg server its my app server

I currently run my prod servers in hetzner cloud and my dev server in AWS

For aws i get a ~250$ bill per month and for hetzner i get ~800$

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so your docker registry is self hosted ?

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yes bro