Running Ubuntu 24.04 in a Proxmox LXC container to host Nextcloud Server Snap. Everything works and I have Nextcloud storage connected to an NFS share on my NAS. However I had to enlarge the LXC container to 512GB of which almost half is being consumed for no adequately explained reason. Please help me figure out why this is happening? The data files in my Nextcloud instance is about 45GB.
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Screenshots or Error Messages:
No error messages
What I’ve Tried:
Nothing as I cannot figure out where the space is being consumed.
root@nextcloud:/# du -sh .[^.]*; du -sh *
du: cannot access '.[^.]*': No such file or directory
512 bin
512 bin.usr-is-merged
512 boot
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/kernel': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/power': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/class': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/devices': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/dev': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/hypervisor': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/fs': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/bus': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/firmware': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/block': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/sys/module': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/fs': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/bus': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/irq': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/spl': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/sys': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/tty': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/acpi': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/scsi': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/asound': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/driver': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/sysvipc': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/pressure': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/dynamic_debug': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/1': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/47': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/124': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/127': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/131': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/144': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/213': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/315': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/316': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/319': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/336': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/343': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/344': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/345': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/346': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/350': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/672': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/674': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/3966': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/714973': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/715601': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/715607': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/715614': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/715627': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/715652': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/715787': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/716168': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/716395': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/716784': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/899785': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/899827': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/1636636': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/1655800': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/1656349': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/1656404': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2355456': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2355457': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2355458': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2355846': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2966592': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2983907': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2984802': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2985165': Permission denied
du: cannot read directory 'dev/.lxc/proc/2985167': Permission denied
4.0K dev
3.7M etc
512 home
512 lib
512 lib.usr-is-merged
512 lib32
512 lib64
512 libx32
185G media
512 mnt
512 opt
du: cannot read directory 'proc/tty/driver': Permission denied
du: cannot access 'proc/2985167/task/2985167/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access 'proc/2985167/task/2985167/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access 'proc/2985167/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access 'proc/2985167/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0 proc
60K root
132K run
512 sbin
512 sbin.usr-is-merged
3.0G snap
512 srv
193K tmp
320M usr
1.9G var
It shows /media taking up 185GB but the folders inside of /media point to two NFS shares on another server. One of them is a target for backing up my data using snap.nextcloud export but I can’t get it to drop the data on the NFS share.
Pardon me but it doesn’t work with snap nextcloud. Symlink is the suggested process there in the Snap Nextcloud Git hub but still I have seen it is not working
Secondly, there is no need to export everything when your user data is already residing outside in some network share. Just use the -b flag to export the database only. You can restore using the database only when using external storage for user data too
Lastly, home you have used sudo snap connect nextcloud:removable-media command to allow the snap nextcloud to access your outside media and for user data, your network share is mounted within /mnt or /media as those are the only two location accessible by nextcloud snap.
Running as root, still gets the error. Running it within the /media directory reports that it is consuming 185G of my container’s boot disk, but it’s not. Why is the container reporting that to Proxmox? I should be able to run a much smaller container drive.
