.local/share/rancher-desktop/lima/0/diffdisk file takes up 13.5GB

Actual Behavior

@ Linux PopOS!22.04

Steps to Reproduce

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Result

Expected Behavior

should be less than 13.5 GB

Additional Information

No response

Rancher Desktop Version

1.3.0

Rancher Desktop K8s Version

1.23.6

Which container runtime are you using?

containerd (nerdctl)

What operating system are you using?

Other Linux

Operating System / Build Version

Pop OS 22.04

What CPU architecture are you using?

x64

Linux only: what package format did you use to install Rancher Desktop?

deb

Windows User Only

No response

[jandubois]

Proposed enhancements to UI can include:

• There could be an option in UI to just also remove all existing images and containers, without deleting Lima VM

I believe this is already possible using the “bulk delete” functionality in the “Images” tab. Click the checkbox on top to select all images, and then click the “Delete” button.

There may be some bugs/omissions about unnamed images, or images that have multiple names assigned to them. I know there are fixes for some of these problems in the coming 1.5.0 release.

• There could be an option in UI to configure disk size used by Lima VM

Yes, but that would probably imply deleting and recreating the image (so like a factory reset, followed by a new start with a different size limit).

We should also have an option to move the while VM to a different volume.

• There could be an option in UI to compact the disk used by Lima VM

This doesn’t seem to be possible so far, except by creating a copy with a different size. But generally you will not have enough space to have another copy of the image at the time you want to compact it, so this does not really work. 😞

[jeremyguthrie]

any chance ‘fstrim’ can be added/invoked to the machine with ‘diffdisk’ attached?