JetBrains & VS Code are using all the free storage quota #57767
-
I started getting storage notifications a few months ago, when I previously hadn’t. I know I don’t have a huge repository, so I decided to use
Deleting these doesn’t break anything for me, because I use VS Code for Web exclusively. However, these are re-added every time the Codespace launches. I wasn’t able to fix it by using a Now, I don’t know if these files are actually counted toward the storage quota (I hope they aren’t, but I can’t think of anything else, and their size lines up with the quota I’m consuming each month). I would hope, to be honest, that keeping a single Codespace in storage doesn’t automatically consume the free quota; this seems against the spirit of having a free quota in the first place. Can someone from GitHub explain what’s going on? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Replies: 1 comment 16 replies
-
Hi 👋 thanks for writing in. The intention of our storage billing is that you are only billed for the storage that you use, which in the case of using the default devcontainer, is just things you've added to the image (your repo, any system configuration and any tools you've manually installed). I don't believe the directories you mention,
and
If you're looking into how to understand what is getting counted toward the storage you're being billed for, how big is the repo that you're using in codespaces? Also are you using prebuilds? We have had some users not realize that you get billed for prebuild storage in addition to the storage used by your running codespaces. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Hi 👋 thanks for writing in. The intention of our storage billing is that you are only billed for the storage that you use, which in the case of using the default devcontainer, is just things you've added to the image (your repo, any system configuration and any tools you've manually installed). I don't believe the directories you mention,
/workspaces/.codespaces/shared/
,/.codespaces/
or/vscode/
are counted toward your storage usage. From our docs about how we bill storage: