topic Re: Reclaim disk space in Alfresco Archive

Reclaim disk space

andyhorton — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:59:41 GMT

Hi,Running Alfresco Community 4 on CentOS. I have deleted gazillions of large files (movies) and have emptied the Bin. However, I have not seen any increase in the amount of free space on the disks…. How can I reclaim the unused space (which I would like to use for something else - not Alfresco).Tha

Re: Reclaim disk space

mitpatoliya — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:33:12 GMT

Once you delete the files from alfresco it moved to archived space.
If you delete from there then it is completely deleted from UI.
But although it is deleted from there still the binary file is there in the content store in the alfresco's alf_data.
So, if you removed the files from there then only you will get you disk space free.
But be careful in doing that.

Re: Reclaim disk space

mrogers — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:50:38 GMT

There are a few steps in deleting content.

First the content can be archived so it can be "undeleted" by an adminstrator.

However after content has been deleted for good in alfresco it becomes "orphaned". A Job runs every night and moves the orphaned content into a folder (dir.contentstore.deleted) which if you have not changed anything will be alf_data/deleted

Once the content is in the deleted folder you have a last chance to back it, move it somewhere else or delete it for good.

Re: Reclaim disk space

andyhorton — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:45:42 GMT

mrogers,

Thanks, that is it. I am the admin, so I had already deleted from the Bin - I assume the Bin is what you mean by "archived"? So today, after the overnight job has run, I was able to delete the content from contentstore.deleted - and now, of course, the space is freed.

Thanks.