It appears that not all unused nuget blobs are getting cleaned up from storage. I’m running the 3.86.0-8 container image. For example, I’m pretty sure I only have adobereader 2025.1.20756 in my ChocolateyInternal repo, but in storage I have: /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes/nexus_data/_data/bl…

Cleanup unused nuget blobs not working?

Orion_Poplawski (Orion Poplawski) November 12, 2025, 4:48pm 2

Looks like I was missing the Compact blob store tasks - Cleanup Policies

After running that the disk space was cleaned up.

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