# Docker Hard Disk Image File Being Too Large
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hard-disk-image-file-being-too-large/347443
**Category:** Logstash
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [November 18, 2023, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hard-disk-image-file-being-too-large/347443 "2023-11-18T06:30:05Z")
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### Author:  [@Ethan777100](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ethan777100)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2023, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hard-disk-image-file-being-too-large/347443/1 "2023-11-18T06:30:05Z")
Its now killing my computer space. I'm in the midst of ingesting 537 csv files (total 10.7GB) into elasticsearch.
`C:\Users\ethan\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\data`
I'm not sure why it became so big.
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### Author:  [@Ethan777100](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ethan777100)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2023, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hard-disk-image-file-being-too-large/347443/2 "2023-11-20T09:43:41Z")
TYPE TOTAL ACTIVE SIZE RECLAIMABLE
Images 3 2 3.057GB 766.5MB (25%)
Containers 3 2 1.32GB 0B (0%)
Local Volumes 3 3 2.02GB 0B (0%)
Build Cache 0 0 0B 0B
My "C:\Users\ethan\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\data\ext4.vhdx" being 25.6GB huge when I'm merely ingesting 492MB worth of csv files?
I checked my configs in logstash.yml and logstash.conf.
I bind mounted these files to logstash to be piped in.
I have tweaked things. Now I am only ingested 1 month worth of csv files to investigate.
I did docker system df and i see that my Local Volumes are growing in sizze. Nothing can be relcaimed in space.
Within logstash, I can confirm bind mounts to my csv files.
However, I searched within the ES file directory. Can't find anything big where my datalake resides.
So from 8.5GB -\> 14.6GB and counting.
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I have tried shutting down docker and killing off `vmmem.wsl` so that I can use `diskpart` to `compact vdisk`. I could cut the file size fo 8.5GB.
However when docker restarts, the file grows again.
THis is not good. Im not sure what else to troubleshoot. Pls help me.
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### Author:  [@Ethan777100](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ethan777100)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hard-disk-image-file-being-too-large/347443/3 "2023-11-20T18:19:30Z")
At 1 million rows ingested, the disk increased a little slower from 10.5 GB -\> 13.5 GB
I did some improvements to streamline how the mapping is done on the columns.
Disk is growing still...but it does feel growing a little slower.
Not sure how much more can I improve on things to make the Disk grow minimally.
Now I am only ingesting 30 days of csv file. Each day about 137000 rows of data.
Eventually I want to ingest 18 months worth of csv files of 137000 rows of Data.
I only have about 200GB of free space to work with. I dont want to burst my file space budget.
I might even, have more csv files to ingest in future - of other data sets.
**PS: My files ingestion stopped midway. But the disk is still growing now at 25 GB! This is astonishing!**
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hard-disk-image-file-being-too-large/347443/4 "2023-12-18T18:19:55Z")
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