1. What is the problem? Be very detailed. Can someone please advise me how ODK Central uses storage on DigitalOcean, and how to check how much storage is currently being used and how much more storage is available. I believe I should have ample storage available, but the DigitalOcean graph says tha…

Central puts all its data in a PostgreSQL database managed by Docker. The relevant folder is in your Docker data directory, so likely /var/lib/docker/volumes/some-randomly-generated-uuid. All this to say, your Central data is on your 60 GB boot disk, not the 100 GB disk you added. You'll need to mo…

Yaw, thanks for your help. I followed the directions you provided and successfully copied what I believe are the relevant files to the external 100GB volume, added the daemon.json file to the /etc/docker directory, and renamed the /var/lib/docker to var/lib/docker.old. However, then I could not lo…

When you say "unfortunately this former setup no longer allows me to log in either", I'm assuming you are referring to the Central login? What specifically happens when you try to login? Have you tried a reboot? Also, what does docker ps show?

Hello again -- As you surmise, the problem was that my Central web page would not load at all, the connection just timed out. Following your hint, I shut down the droplet and restarted it. This solved the problem completely. Simply stopping and restarting Docker was not sufficient. I've documente…

@Hayden_Boyd Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad it's working for you! If you can put your write up in a Google Doc (or Word or whatever) and email me at yanokwa@nafundi.com , I'll gladly integrate it into the Central docs.

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