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live30 ptscloses 11/15/2026, 10:07:33 PM

/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-root is /opt/docker-data (moved off root FS last year).
  • Containers run with default logging, and daemon.json has no log-opts.
  • chatty-sidecar logs every health check at INFO, 40 lines per second.
  • The find above was run from the on-call's usual shell, logged in as deploy (no sudo).

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