The virtual disk for my lemmy instance filled up which caused lemmy to throw a lot of errors. I resized the disk and expanded the filesystem but now the pictrs container is constantly restarting.

root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# le 
less         lessecho     lessfile     lesskey      lesspipe     let          letsencrypt  lexgrog      
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# ls
leemyalone.org
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# cd leemyalone.org/
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy/leemyalone.org# docker-compose ps
          Name                        Command                 State                           Ports                      
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
leemyaloneorg_lemmy-ui_1   docker-entrypoint.sh /bin/ ...   Up           1234/tcp                                        
leemyaloneorg_lemmy_1      /app/lemmy                       Up                                                           
leemyaloneorg_pictrs_1     /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/b ...   Restarting                                                   
leemyaloneorg_postfix_1    /root/run                        Up           25/tcp                                          
leemyaloneorg_postgres_1   docker-entrypoint.sh postgres    Up           5432/tcp                                        
leemyaloneorg_proxy_1      /docker-entrypoint.sh ngin ...   Up           80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:3378->8536/tcp,:::3378->8536/tcp
  • adminOPEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Is there a way to reset the pictrs DB without affecting the posts, commenst and users DB?

    • @SpecGeo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      You can try mounting a new folder as pictrs volume. I assume your other data will be safe since it is in the database.

    • john armoredcore English
      1•1 year ago

      pictrs database is completely separate from lemmy database. If you want you just delete everything in the pictrs volume and start afresh. You will lose all images though.

      • adminOPEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        There’s only two local posts on my instance so i’m not worried about losing thoseabout.

        Will the pictrs from subscribed communities in other instances be restored after a db reset?

        • john armoredcore English
          0•1 year ago

          pictrs from subscribed communities in other instances

          Dont worry about those. Those images are not stored by your pictrs instance. They are directly fetched from the native instances.

      • adminOPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        OK. I just deleted the pictrs folder from srv/lemmy/leemyalone.org/volumes but I am still having the same issue.

        • john armoredcore English
          2•1 year ago

          You’ll have to check again. My guess is though you should not have deleted the pictrs folders. Just its contents. You can recreate the folder again though:

          mkdir pictrs
sudo chown 991:991 pictrs

          But check the logs first.

          • adminOPEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            In my previous comment I should have mentioned that I did recreate the pictrs folder. Your instruction to change set the ownership of the pictures folder to 991:991 did the trick.

            Thank you so much for your help here. Much appreciated.