How do you know how much space you are using in a volume?

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flyctl volumes show ID

Lists Size GB: 40, which is the total size of the volume. How do you know how much of that space you are actually using?

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Not sure how to do so via flyctl volumes, but you can always flyctl ssh console -s into the VM and du -sH / df -h your way?

# runs the cmd in the nearest vm to the client
fly ssh console -C `du -sH /mount/point/*`
# or ssh into a vm via its 6pn ip
fly ips private
fly ssh console "[6pn:ip:within:these:brackets]"

See: fly ssh console fails with `Error host unavailable: host was not found in DNS` - #5 by ignoramous

(assuming the app’s container has the du or df binary in its path)

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Hello!

You can check for volume metrics (and more) in the Fly-provided Grafana dashboard, found at https://fly-metrics.net/ (You’ll need to be authenticated into your Fly account to view it).

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