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Podman/docker leave behind old images, image layers, and containers that need to be cleaned up occasionally.
podman system prunewill do so.If 8TB was taken up quickly or unexpectedly, it might be something like a container failing to start and being recreated over and over, leaving each failed container behind as it goes.
podman ps --allwill list all containers, running or stopped. Before doing the system prune run that andpodman image ls --allto see if anything looks amiss.In my case I like to run most things in containers, and that includes a lot of ML shit. Since I'm on AMD nothing fucking works, so I accumulate all these huge multiple GB containers that don't work because the whole ML/AI/GPU stack is a steaming pile.