Immich Redis saving to disk "no space left on device"
Weirdly the redis container seems to take up space on my root (/) partition, as cleaning up dangling docker images often solves the issue for a bit. However, as can be seen in my docker-compose.yml, the redis container doesn't even have any volumes attached. How can this be the case and how can I solve it?
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this is running on alpine linux, docker engine. The hardware is an x86_64 intel based minipc.
The root partition is pretty small (thats why the error is coming) and I mainly use an external HDD anyway, mounted on /media/vol.
fdisk -l and df -h outputs attached (you can also see there that / is 100% full. Likely since the redis container somehow accesses it)
Any container's 'root' filesystem will go in /var/lib/docker, so that's where any writes go if there isn't a volume mount on the container
You could set a volume for redis's data volume, but I think either way you should probably give your root disk some more space
I see. The root in /var/lib/docker will get erased each container restart, right? Wouldn't that be an issue if I give the redis data volume a persistent storage?
I sadly can't expand my root disk since this isn't a VM and the machine can't be disassembled.
You should make a new VM or expand the disk. That’s not really an immich issue though
Redis will generate some data. This is unavoidable
i see. thanks
You can also remote some unused docker images to reclaim the space