[DOCS-6423] Explain why disk space usage recovery Created: 21/Oct/15  Updated: 30/Oct/23  Resolved: 01/Nov/22

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual, Server
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Bug Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Docs Collector User (Inactive) Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 0
Labels: bite-sized, docs-triage
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified
Environment:

linux

Location: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/storage/#faq-disk-size
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.97 Safari/537.22
Referrer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6263729/mongodb-file-size-is-huge-and-growing
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080
repo: docs
source: faq/storage


Participants:
Days since reply: 1 year, 14 weeks, 1 day ago
Epic Link: DOCSP-1769
Story Points: 0.25

 Description   

How can this possibly be correct behaviour.

It seems that the database grows continuously and the only way to recover the space is to take it off-line.

I have a database with 3GB of used space and 29GB of disk space used. There is absolutely no obvious reason why this might be the case. Nothing on the web hints at what is going on other than the stack-overflow page from 2011 which basically admits that this is hopeleess.

This makes mongo completely useless for almost any application.



 Comments   
Comment by Education Bot [ 01/Nov/22 ]

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