Disk quota exceeded on OpenShift

Question

I just deployed application to OpenShift, and it worked fine, until I ment to push changes. Then it started to warn me about disk quota exceeded, and I\'m not able to do any

Answer 1

Something that also helped me was to disable journaling

Laying out complete steps

1. SSH into your OpenShift

   rhc ssh $@ -a $app
   

2. In the MongoDB configuration

   vim ~/mongodb/conf/mongodb.conf
   

   add or set

   nojournal = true
   

Note: ~ automatically resolves to /var/lib/openshift/

3. Delete previous journal data

   rm ~/mongodb/data/journal/*
   

Then exit from SSH, and

4. restart MongoDB

   rhc cartridge-restart mongodb-2.4 -a $app
   

This of course, comes at the cost of not journaling, which is helpful for recovering the data in case of corruption or unclean shutdown. But if you're just testing things out and running out of space then disabling journaling can be very helpful as it takes a lot of space.