eabay / docker-disk-cleaner

Periodically checks free space on path and deletes files to free up disk

Disk Cleaner

Periodically checks free space on path and deletes files to free up disk.

Example

Checks free space left where the path bind-mounted to /data volume and deletes

docker run \
    -d \
    -v /messy/path:/data \
    -e DELETE_COUNT=5 \
    -e DELAY_TIME=60 \
    -e MIN_FREE_SPACE=100000 \
    mc2labs/disk-cleaner

The container created with this command checks free disk space every 60 seconds on path /messy/disk and deletes oldest 5 files if free space on disk is less then 100MB (100000KB)

Variables

Variable	Default	Unit	Description
DELETE_COUNT	5		Number of files to delete
DELAY_TIME	60	seconds	Time to delay for the next execution
MIN_FREE_SPACE		kbytes	Minimum free space required to delete files