Problem: Not able to delete accumulated avatar and header images

[jorgesat]

The tootctl cron job currently deletes attached media after certain period of time. However, many admins are complaining that there is a large amount of disk space being used in avatar and header images, especially from large instances and from old instances and accounts that no longer exist.

Please see: mastodon/mastodon#9567

Proposed solution: Enabling the possibility to delete such images from disk.

[weex]

Looks like a valid problem to me. There seem to be several solutions offered in that thread and one that was merged 8 days ago on setting a retention policy. Not sure which would be best but we'll merge it when a pull request is created!

[weex]

Seems to be a possible solution. mastodon/mastodon#18397

[weex]

The above PR gave modest results.

2219/2219 |=======================================| Time: 00:23:34
OK, pruned 2196 accounts

Before (from tootctl media usage):

Avatars:	5.65 GB (3.05 MB local)
Headers:	12.2 GB (2.04 MB local)

After

Avatars:	5.5 GB (3.05 MB local)
Headers:	11.9 GB (2.04 MB local)

[evanphilip]

Is this issue resolved by mastodon/mastodon#22149, which closed issue mastodon/mastodon#9567?

[weex]

@evanphilip

Is this issue resolved by mastodon/mastodon#22149, which closed issue mastodon/mastodon#9567?

Great work! It's not resolved yet, but if you want to submit as a PR (and it passes our very similar CI) we'll merge it.