The Case of the Hidden Mongo Data

Over here at Vena, we share a docker-compose.yml file to help new developers set up their environments smoothly. I’ve edited this file to mount the Mongo and MySQL data to an accessible location on the developer’s local machine:

mongo:
 image: 

What’s using all the disk space?

We had an issue a while ago where one of our Mongo instances had run out of available space on the root disk. This was concerning because we use a large separate volume mounted at /data that is dedicated entirely …