# AWX- Filesystem space issue because of "/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/containerd/io.containerd.snapshotter.v1.overlayfs/snapshots/" directory

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**Tags:** kubernetes, awx\
**Created:** [May 20, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-filesystem-space-issue-because-of-var-lib-rancher-k3s-agent-containerd-io-containerd-snapshotter-v1-overlayfs-snapshots-directory/42743 "2025-05-20T14:58:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinothravindhran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9fc348/32.png) [@vinothravindhran](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vinothravindhran)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-filesystem-space-issue-because-of-var-lib-rancher-k3s-agent-containerd-io-containerd-snapshotter-v1-overlayfs-snapshots-directory/42743/1 "2025-05-20T14:58:01Z")

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AWX- Filesystem space issue because of “/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/containerd/io.containerd.snapshotter.v1.overlayfs/snapshots/” directory.

- Our AWX running with AWX 24.6.1 version and Filesystem filled very frequently. I have searched other forums but no luck.

I have referred following site to install AWX on my environment.

> **[GitHub - kurokobo/awx-on-k3s: An example implementation of AWX on single node...](https://github.com/kurokobo/awx-on-k3s)**
>
> An example implementation of AWX on single node K3s using AWX Operator, with easy-to-use simplified configuration with ownership of data and passwords.

- version details  
kubectl version  
Client Version: v1.29.6+k3s2  
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3  
Server Version: v1.29.6+k3s2  
AWX 24.6.1  
Our gitlab project size is around 7GB, and Filesystem size is 120GB.

- other details

```auto
[root@server ~]# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-RootVol00 120G 79G 41G 66% /
[root@server ~]# du -sh /var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/containerd/io.containerd.snapshotter.v1.overlayfs/snapshots/
60G /var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/containerd/io.containerd.snapshotter.v1.overlayfs/snapshots/
[root@server ~]#
[root@server data]# kubectl events
LAST SEEN TYPE REASON OBJECT MESSAGE
19s (x35 over 170m) Warning FreeDiskSpaceFailed Node/server (combined from similar events): Failed to garbage collect required amount of images. Attempted to free 39541062041 bytes, but only found 0 bytes eligible to free.
8s (x881 over 3h40m) Warning ProvisioningFailed PersistentVolumeClaim/awx-projects-claim storageclass.storage.k8s.io "awx-projects-volume" not found
[root@server data]#

```

@kurokobo

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**Author:** ![vinothravindhran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9fc348/32.png) [@vinothravindhran](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vinothravindhran)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-filesystem-space-issue-because-of-var-lib-rancher-k3s-agent-containerd-io-containerd-snapshotter-v1-overlayfs-snapshots-directory/42743/2 "2025-05-26T03:39:44Z")

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Any input will be much appreciable.

Also, sometime, usage getting reduced and again increasing  
Is this expected behavior?

Is there any setting available, where we can fix the issue. Please advise.

@kurokobo