[squid-users] How to prevent Squid to use more and more HD space in virtualbox

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 19.11.21 16:45, Graminsta wrote:
>Thanks so much for the answers to my queries about squid.
>
>I have a problem with the continuous increase in disk space usage on linux
>where squid is hosted. Even having turned off the cache ("#cache_dir ufs
>/var/spool/squid/ 1000 16 256").
>
>I have to keep recreating virtualbox instances and deleting the old ones
>frequently.
>
>VMs starts at 7gb and in a few weeks grows to 10...20...30Gb.
>
>Why does Squid need so much growing hard drive space and how to prevent it?


have you checked which files/directories use most of space?

du -kax / |sort -nr|head

repeat for every on-disk filesystem (e.g. if you have separate /var)

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