Radek
January 18, 2025, 1:44pm
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hi
the first time I asked my question about (temp) volumes it was back in Nov 2022. More than two years ago. Probably it is not that ‘big’ questions but I am sure I am not the only one needing the answer.
fly changed so I asked similar question recently. No solution.
It seems to me that there is no way to ask that question to fly support directly so I wonder if someone is willing ask for me.
Is there a way to get a temp volume for fly machine? Or is it possible to mount volume to a running machine?
It looks like I can mount Tigris but it does not feel right to me for temp files, transactional files.
I am not a tech guru, maybe there is an obvious answer to that so please excuse me asking.
I am happy with answer - “No, it is not possible (right now)”.
Thank you
this isn’t possible, no. instead you can save files to the root filesystem without a volume, which is 8GB minus the size of your docker image, and gets automatically wiped when the machine reboots.
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Radek
January 18, 2025, 3:40pm
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hi lillian
what is not possible? Both?
to have temp volume
mount volume to a running machine. Why is not this one possible? mount on linux can be used on running machine.
How do I know much left out of the 8GB you are talking about? I think that 6GB temp space is good enough for most of the use cases.
Thank you
I suppose both of those aren’t possible because the fly.io feature doesn’t exist, and to my knowledge there are no plans to add it.
You can check the space remaining with df -h / command:
/ # df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 7.8G 40.8M 7.3G 1% /
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Radek
January 18, 2025, 4:48pm
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great. thank you so much for all the answers…
I have one more question…
Why such machine got 2GB when stopped? I was expecting 1GB default volume
system
January 25, 2025, 4:48pm
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