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[lmi] /etc/etckeeper/.git became enormous
From: |
Greg Chicares |
Subject: |
[lmi] /etc/etckeeper/.git became enormous |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:50:43 +0000 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.12.0 |
It seems that etckeeper might never trigger garbage collection.
On a corporate server:
du -sh /etc/.git/objects/
11G /etc/.git/objects/
git gc
du -sh /etc/.git/objects/
44M /etc/.git/objects/
A tiny 11G file shouldn't matter in 2022, but this server mounts
various parts of the filesystem on distinct partitions.
I created a script to automate this, following the advice here:
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20111111/etckeeper-has-huge-git-repo-how-remove
#cat /etc/etckeeper/post-install.d/99git-gc
#!/bin/sh
exec git gc
- [lmi] /etc/etckeeper/.git became enormous,
Greg Chicares <=