# I know this influx is some sort of hobby project, but can you at least make sure data is being deleted

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**Category:** InfluxDB 2\
**Created:** [March 6, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-know-this-influx-is-some-sort-of-hobby-project-but-can-you-at-least-make-sure-data-is-being-deleted/24132 "2022-03-06T00:13:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![f1outsourcing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a183cd/32.png) [@f1outsourcing](https://community.influxdata.com/u/f1outsourcing)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/i-know-this-influx-is-some-sort-of-hobby-project-but-can-you-at-least-make-sure-data-is-being-deleted/24132/1 "2022-03-06T00:13:57Z")

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It is @#$@#$ ridiculous that I have to manually delete stuff. How can you even sell this product.

> <https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/23138>
>
> I am getting sick of my disk running full because you are not fixing this 
> http…s://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/20787
> 
> How can I delete stuff without resizing the disk???
> \`\`\`
> \> DELETE WHERE time \< '2021-09-10'
> ERR: shard 6: open /var/lib/influxdb/data/collections/autogen/6/000002212-000000026.tombstone.tmp: no space left on device
> \`\`\`
> I have 1MB free

> <https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/20787>
>
> \`\`\`
> \> SHOW RETENTION POLICIES
> name duration shardGroupDuration replicaN def…ault
> \---- -------- ------------------ -------- -------
> autogen 0s 168h0m0s 1 true
> \`\`\`
> 
> On the 16/9/2019 I had this configured to be 8760h0m0s????