Managing Local Storage¶

All of the local titan storage, including the data stored on repositories, is kept in a single docker volume titan-data. This volume will persist even across restarts of the titan infrastructure, upgrades of docker, and other changes on the host.

By default, the titan-data volume is created as a vanilla docker volume, which uses storage locally on the host system. If you want to use different storage for your titan work, you can manually create the titan-data volume yourself prior to running titan install.

Warning

Do not manually change the contents of the titan-data volume, and do not change the volume on a running system; use titan uninstall first. Changing the contents of this volume can have unpredictable effects on Titan.

Warning

If you do create your own titan-data volume, be aware that it will automatically destroyed when titan uninstall is run. There is not currently a way to uninstall titan while preserving the underlying volume.

Managing Storage Usage¶

To view the amount of space consumed by a repository, run the titan status command. This will display output similar to:

$ titan status hello-world
            Status:  running
 Uncompressed Size:  526.5 KiB
   Compressed Size:  254 KiB
       Last Commit:  12c6da4d57004d3497afca4fb914ed58

Volume                          Uncompressed  Compressed
/var/lib/postgresql/data        31.7 MiB      6.9 MiB

The compressed size shows the amount of space currently consumed by the repository, and the amount of space that would be freed if it were to be destroyed. The volume size represents the amount of data actively being used. While it can be reduced by freeing up data within the directory, it may or may not reduce overall data consumption as that data may be referenced by previous commits.

There is not currently a way to view the amount of storage used by individual commits.