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/opt is growing and nobody is writing to it
/opt/app gains ~200MB a day. find -newer shows nothing. No new files. No cron. Pure vibes.
The scene
Reported: /opt went 40% → 91% in 3 weeks. Every day ~200MB more.
$ find /opt -type f -newermt '-1 day' | wc -l
0
$ du -sh /opt/* | sort -h | tail -3
1.1G /opt/app
2.4G /opt/tools
19G /opt/docker-data- This host's Docker
data-rootis/opt/docker-data(moved off root FS last year). - Containers run with default logging, and
daemon.jsonhas nolog-opts. chatty-sidecarlogs every health check at INFO, 40 lines per second.- The
findabove was run from the on-call's usual shell, logged in asdeploy(no sudo).
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