Hard Drive Full - Disk Usage Solutions Not Working

[scottcarson]

Hello everyone,

4.2.e

Background: I understand file cleanup goes as follows:
- file gets deleted -> goes to trashcan (aka labelled as deleted in DB but still present in contentstore)
- trashcan gets emptied -> goes to contentstore.deleted at 4AM (aka DB marks files as orphaned, then moves them to contentstore.deleted at 4AM)
- delete contentstore.deleted directory -> file completely gone and space freed up.

I've got a situation where the user ran wild with their files, filling up the 4TB drive. I checked and they had never emptied their trash can, so that was the first step. I also saw that contentstore.deleted was exactly 100GB, so I removed it. The user emptied their trash, I waited overnight, and contentstore.deleted is only 1.3GB, although the user insists they deleted 500GB of files. Am I missing something? Does Alfresco's contentstore.deleted directory have a limit of 100G? Does it take numerous iterations of waiting for contentstore.deleted to fill?

Any input is greatly appreciated,
-Scott.

[rjohnson]

There are a series of setting that control this, I cannot remember them off hand but there are documents on the forums & in the wiki that explain them. There is a setting about "eager" cleanup somewhere. I think, if memory serves, there is a delay between emptying trash and stuff ending up in contentstore.deleted. There is no limit to the size of contentstore.deleted that I am aware of.