Nextcloud Jail Size keeps growing

[Sardaukar]

Hello Community! This is my first post so please be gentle with me. I'm running TrueNAS 12.0.-U7, and on that I'm running the Nextcloud plugin 23.0.0 I can of course provide more details on hardware if that helps solve my problem.

I've ran into a problem where the size of the jail for the Nextcloud plugin never goes down; it grew so big that it took up all the space on my SSD and stopped working. I wiped Nextcloud out and reinstalled the plugin.

I added external storage as per these instructions:

How to install and configure NextCloud plugin in FreeNAS 11.3 - Flemming's Blog

NextCoud is an Open-source cloud platform you can host yourself. It is like Dropbox, but can also do a lot more. But most important you have full control over your own files. In this guide I will show how to set it up it’s FreeNAS plugin, and also how to use your FreeNAS datastores in […]

flemmingss.com

All seems well, but as an experiment I have added 40gb of data to the external storage, and then deleted it. Watching the truenas pool page I can see the separate drive hosting the external storage goes up 40 gb then drop 40gb as I added then deleted the data, but the Nextcloud Jail has jumped to approximately 50 gb and has not gone down. Am I doomed to watch the jail keep growing until it fills the drive again and is unusable, or is there a solution that I am not aware of?

Any help on this would be much appreciated, and accept my apologizes if this has been brought up on another thread already.

Cheers!

 

[EtienneB]

Hi,

Did you find any solutions on this?

I did see that my /var/cache/pkg was getting big, like 4GB.
But could remove old packages with:
pkg clean

My jail is around 25Gb, while my all data is mounted to an external dataset.
I guess quite a bit is from snapshots of the jail itself then.
I do see that the /var/db is around 1GB and Nextcloud is hardly used.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Try zfs list -r -t all <poolname>/iocage/jails/<jailname> to check for snapshots taking up space.

 

[sretalla]

I noticed that my nextcloud log was about 32GB the other day... that jail does very little, so it's logging a lot for not much happening.

Maybe check under /var/log in the jail to see if that's it for you.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

But ZFS compresses transparently by default and the Nextcloud log is extremely compressible.