Hello, I created a nexus registry for storing some docker images. I needed to manually delete one, so I did from web interface deleted the folder of the image wich contains manifest and tags for this image. But still space on disk is no beeing free, I guess nexus still store blobs. I ran the tas…

Hello Hugo, You need to run the Admin - Compact blob store task to free up disk space from deleted components. When components are ‘deleted’ they are only marked as soft deleted.

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Hugo_Deprez (Hugo Deprez) November 5, 2025, 2:46pm 3

thank you. it just works !

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