GitHub Actions failes with: "no space left on device"

[Imipenem]

Description
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I recently noticed that one of my GitHub workflows failed with the above mentioned error.
Link to one of those runs: https://github.com/Imipenem/mypytest/runs/2060441074.

i followed #709 and added:
sudo rm -rf "/usr/local/share/boost"
sudo rm -rf "$AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY"

But this lead to the error that I could not execute some python packages etc which is crucial for my workflow.

So I decided to remove some space consuming packages, but the error still persists.

Area for Triage:

Question, Bug, or Feature?:

Bug

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11.0
• Windows Server 2016 R2
• Windows Server 2019

Image version

Image version where you are experiencing the issue.
Version: 20210302.0

Expected behavior
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The workflow should pass.

Actual behavior
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Workflow keeps failing with running out of space

Repro steps
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1. https://github.com/Imipenem/mypytest/runs/2060441074 link for example WF run (accidently ran WF another time, so link is not the initial run)

Exact error:
Error processing tar file(exit status 1): write /home/user/miniconda/envs/mypytest/lib/python3.9/site-packages/torch/lib/libtorch_cuda_cu.so: no space left on device Error: exit status 1

Any ideas @miketimofeev or others?

Thanks ;)

[al-cheb]

Hello, @Imipenem
I think you can delete donet&ghc locations - #2840 (comment)

[Imipenem]

Thanks @al-cheb will try this

[Imipenem]

This worked, thanks @al-cheb

[jlumbroso]

@Imipenem Having faced this siutation so many times, I decided to stop rewriting the wheel 😁 and wrote a GitHub Actions to do this properly:

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/free-disk-space-ubuntu

Open to suggestions. I noticed these lines:

sudo rm -rf "/usr/local/share/boost"
sudo rm -rf "$AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY"

but I am not sure what they remove?

[miketimofeev]

@jlumbroso the first one doesn't exist anymore on the image. The second one removes all the pre-cached tools (Node, Go, Python, Ruby) that are used by the correspondent actions like https://github.com/actions/setup-python

[jlumbroso]

Thanks so much @miketimofeev! Thanks to you, I have added an option tool-cache that removes the pre-cached tools, it saves an extra 6GB. You also taught me how to look at the internals of GitHub Actions runners 😁 🙏🏻

https://github.com/jlumbroso/free-disk-space/releases/tag/v1.1.0