# Update the registry file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [September 3, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027 "2018-09-03T07:49:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@saisimo02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saisimo02)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/1 "2018-09-03T07:49:20Z")
Hello,
I would like to update delete the old data from the file "registry", in fact I am getting now an error message : no left space on device.
So I would like to delete information about files already parsed by logstash after one hour.
Thanks for help 🙂
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/2 "2018-09-03T08:21:06Z")
Are you sure that the error you are seeing is not due to Filebeat holding onto file descriptors? What's the output of `lsof -c filebeat`?
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### Author:  [@saisimo02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saisimo02)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/3 "2018-09-03T08:24:14Z")
I am using an old version of linux, so I am getting lsof bash command not found
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### Author:  [@saisimo02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saisimo02)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/4 "2018-09-03T08:27:56Z")
In fact when I run filebeat I got a message error that indicates : there is no space left so filebeat can't add new file to registry.new and when I opened registry is stocking data from last week
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/5 "2018-09-03T08:46:34Z")
What's the size of the registry file?
Could you try restarting Filebeat to see if the problem persists?
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### Author:  [@saisimo02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saisimo02)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/6 "2018-09-03T08:51:11Z")
the size of registry file is 240k it's weird 😕 ! the size of filebeat directory is 48M and the size of my vm is 10Go and there is only filebeat running there. And now the disk is full
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/7 "2018-09-03T09:15:06Z")
Have you tried restarting Filebeat?
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### Author:  [@saisimo02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saisimo02)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/8 "2018-09-03T09:15:33Z")
Yes, and still getting the same problem
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-the-registry-file/147027/9 "2018-10-01T09:15:48Z")
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