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Installing Redis made VPS huge in size

Posted on September 28, 2017
Redis Ubuntu 16.04
Asked by Peter Carlsson

Installing Redis made VPS huge in size:

Any idea why?

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Peter Carlsson • September 28, 2017

Accepted Answer

du -hs apps gives me:

239M apps

so it has nothing to do with my sites i think?

Must be a huge tmp some ware ?

Ben B. • September 28, 2017

Check inside the droplet and find out why the directories are large.

Peter Carlsson • September 28, 2017

sudo df -kh gave me:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 488M 0 488M 0% /dev tmpfs 100M 3.2M 97M 4% /run /dev/vda1 29G 11G 19G 38% / tmpfs 497M 0 497M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 497M 0 497M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/vda15 105M 3.4M 102M 4% /boot/efi tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user/1000