On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 7:45 PM Bo Berglund <
bo.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have an svn server running as a backup system on an Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS SERVER.
>
> $ svn --version
> svn, version 1.13.0 (r1867053)
> compiled May 12 2022, 20:47:08 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Today after returning from a 2-week trip I discovered that the Ubuntu server had
> run out of disk space on / and could not create files of various kinds...
>
> After I investigated the situation it turns out that
> /var/lib/svn/pc/db/txn-protorevs alone uses up 11.9 GB!
These are "dead" or "stale" uncommitted transactions[1]. You can use
them. The first link has several helpful hints.