[Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] /var/satellite full (1.2TB). What happens if I remove some of the contents?

[Dennis Pittman]

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Peirce, Dean
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 2:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [EXTERNAL] /var/satellite full (1.2TB). What happens if I remove some of the contents?

/var/satellite will continue to grow as the repos grow in size, due to packages being updated.
I have a separate disk just for satellite that we've bolted on more storage yearly.

-Dean

> On Jan 31, 2022, at 2:02 PM, T <tony.m.ly7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Don't know if there's anyone here still using Spacewalk. We inherited a legacy system so much of the experience and know-how are gone.
> 
> Issue:
> Our machine running spacewalk is 100% full. I tracked it down to /var/satellite being completely full. Our option is to clear some space or create more space since postgres is no longer running due to no space.
> 
> Other research suggested spacewalk-data-fsck or spacecmd but neither of these work because the database isn't running.
> I am out of ideas so my hail mary is going into /var/satellite/redhat/ and removing random stuff from there. Terrible idea - I know but I'm wondering if others have had this problem, and how did you remedy it?
> 
> Thank you,
> Tony
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