WebODM Storage Ghost Data

[NGE_Drone_Services]

I’ve deleted ALL projects from WebODM, but it still says I’m using 63gb of storage. Why is that? What could possible be stored when everything is deleted, and why is it doing this so I may prevent it in the future?

[Gordon]

Perhaps similar weirdness to this?

What's eating up my HD space? - #6 by Gordon

[smathermather]

Probably relevant, but this post has a solution:

What is eating up my hard disk part dieux (pssst! Spoiler: it's the database not being vacuumed))

Well, I remember reading this in December: And then when I dove into my WebODM instance, I see the DB taking up 1.2TB. Sigh. So, what’s my best method for cleaning? Burn it all down and start over? That seems silly. So, I logged into the db docker image: docker exec -it db bash And then ran a vacuum full on the database. vacuumdb -a -f -U postgres This isn’t typically recommended: having a good autovacuum schedule is much better, but if we had that, I wouldn’t have 1.2TB of data in my po…

[Gordon]

Not an option for me with the native Windows version. I had to manually delete the files, but they were no ordinary files, perhaps possessed by unknown dark forces - still taking up disk space after deletion! I had to reformat the SSD to free up space.

[smathermather]

Oof. Yeah, it’s a lot easier to get under the hood on Linux.