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I think it's the correct usage. You're just checking the size of
`/root` folder inside the container, rather than the container
overall. As it should be `du -sh
/var/lib/lxc/example_repo_container-237946ab/rootfs/` instead.

пн, 5 июн. 2023 г. в 14:12, Gk Gk <ygk.kmr at gmail.com>:
>
> But when I check it from the host, it is still showing incorrect usage:
>
> ---
>  du -sh /var/lib/lxc/example_repo_container-237946ab/rootfs/root/
> 36K /var/lib/lxc/example_repo_container-237946ab/rootfs/root/
> --
>
> How to get its correct usage then ?
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 5:15 PM Dmitriy Rabotyagov <noonedeadpunk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't think this is possible.
>> Disk usage of containers should be performed from the host rather then
>> container. Unfortunately, with current default backing store (which is
>> `dir`), there's no neat way of doing that. So you'd need to use smth
>> like `du -sh /var/lib/lxc/<container_name>/rootfs/` to check how much
>> diskspace it's consuming. Though, backing store is customizable. So
>> you can set `lxc_container_backing_store` variable to "lvm" or "zfs"
>> and check diskspace consumption per lvm/zfs volume.
>>
>> пн, 5 июн. 2023 г. в 09:56, Gk Gk <ygk.kmr at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > We have an OSA setup. When I check the usage of filesystem of any container using "df" command, it shows the lvm partitions of the underlying host as well as shown below:
>> > --
>> > Filesystem                                         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/mapper/lxc1-lv_root                            86G   60G   22G  74% /
>> > none                                               492K  4.0K  488K   1% /dev
>> > /dev/mapper/lxc-openstack                          493G  136G  334G  29% /var/log
>> > tmpfs                                              252G     0  252G   0% /dev/shm
>> > tmpfs                                               51G   88K   51G   1% /run
>> > tmpfs                                              5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
>> > tmpfs                                              252G     0  252G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> > example:gfs-repo   86G   67G   16G  82% /var/www/repo
>> > ---
>> >
>> > How to exclude the host partitions such that df only reports the container usage only ?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Kumar