# System take more and more space **URL:** \ **Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [December 5, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373 "2025-12-05T05:57:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nicobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@Nicobio](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Nicobio)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/1 "2025-12-05T05:57:18Z")
Hi there, I’m running an Umbrel node, since around 6 months and it was running fine, since the last update, the space takes by the system increase undefinitively. I reinstalled it 2 weeks agoo and the same things hapend. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/e/e90309ff2fff9e3b344fae38b7db152d2527d271.png) thanks for the help ---
**Author:** ![stinger32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@stinger32](https://community.umbrel.com/u/stinger32)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/2 "2025-12-05T19:02:07Z")
System total - (Electrs & dbase + Bitcoin & dbase + mempool space) = System space (20ish GB) That looks right. Maybe I’m looking at it wrong. How much space do you have left on the drive and how big is it? ---
**Author:** ![Nicobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@Nicobio](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Nicobio)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/3 "2025-12-05T20:09:36Z")
Hi, as you can see ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/d/dda0fb7fe8d7c67f50f448359a32788da9870daf.png) ---
**Author:** ![my\_bitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/my_bitcoin/32/5762_2.png) [@my\_bitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/my_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/4 "2025-12-06T06:12:53Z")
Because the bitcoin chain is constantly growing ---
**Author:** ![Nicobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@Nicobio](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Nicobio)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/5 "2025-12-06T06:35:48Z")
thanks for the interrest, look at the 2 screen, “_system”_ take more space than bitcoin node, I had more apps install for 6 months without any problem, “_system”_ was taking less space I don’t remember exactly how much but I think it was less than 200 GB. I reinstall my umbrel node from zero 2 weeks agoo because of this problem, bitcoin node was sync in only 2 days and didn’t grow up since. I saw system growing up by around 100 GB per day. I have this problem since the last Umbrel update, I think it’s more link to the backup feature, wich have a big space optimisation problem too, ---
**Author:** ![my\_bitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/my_bitcoin/32/5762_2.png) [@my\_bitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/my_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/6 "2025-12-06T06:48:28Z")
does it correct itself after reboot. I believe ive seen some people report a bug that shows usage when its not there ---
**Author:** ![Nicobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@Nicobio](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Nicobio)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/7 "2025-12-06T06:49:15Z")
yes, same thing after reboot ---
**Author:** ![my\_bitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/my_bitcoin/32/5762_2.png) [@my\_bitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/my_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 6:52am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/8 "2025-12-06T06:52:15Z")
im just curious have you went looking in the cli ? sorry for misunderstanding the issue. I know ive read this problem either in here or on reddit recently. Ill see if i can find it ---
**Author:** ![Nicobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@Nicobio](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Nicobio)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/9 "2025-12-06T06:55:11Z")
yes ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/2/2549e4ac545c68cbed992e75908edc3cd84cad55.png) ---
**Author:** ![my\_bitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/my_bitcoin/32/5762_2.png) [@my\_bitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/my_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 6:57am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/10 "2025-12-06T06:57:11Z")
im sure youve dug deeeper into that data dir then? im still looking all ive found so far are out of control logs.. ---
**Author:** ![Nicobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@Nicobio](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Nicobio)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 7:03am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/11 "2025-12-06T07:03:50Z")
as you can see ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/2/205e9f01afc7e29f3d2965261c86e7ea1532ec3f.png) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/1/115d7a3192295a393a7262d459aa8d5470fd2e49.png) ---
**Author:** ![my\_bitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/my_bitcoin/32/5762_2.png) [@my\_bitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/my_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/12 "2025-12-06T07:21:47Z")
go back one and look again ---
**Author:** ![Nicobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@Nicobio](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Nicobio)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/13 "2025-12-06T09:02:26Z")
it looks like tis is the docker folder wich so much space, but I can’t acces it ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/2/2c2f2eccc99575979465f46be5ac70f3830cf064.png) ---
**Author:** ![Nicobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@Nicobio](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Nicobio)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/system-take-more-and-more-space/24373/14 "2025-12-06T09:13:04Z")
here is the content of the folder, I’m not a linux or docker expert ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/c/cf3543331ae62e66880110e07c50293b39a8b7c9.png) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/b/bee9e474a9e2e97dd06a37c6815f320e8ab64ef9.jpeg)