Provide UI to enable periodical rake task to cleanup unused LFS files
Problem to solve
Users or admins run up against storage limits, and realize that they are using a lot of storage on LFS objects they no longer want or need. Then they find there is no way to remove them from the GitLab-managed LFS storage without deleting the project.
Current solution we used is as described in Create a rake task to cleanup unused LFS files (#36628 - closed), create rake task to clean up unused lfs file reference, and after some time, the lfs files will be deleted.
# Clean up unused lfs file reference
## via project path
gitlab-rake gitlab:cleanup:orphan_lfs_file_references PROJECT_PATH="xxx/xxx" DRY_RUN=false
## via project id
gitlab-rake gitlab:cleanup:orphan_lfs_file_references PROJECT_ID="xxx" DRY_RUN=false
However, this is not known to many customers and tedious to operate such commands mannually.
Solution
Provide UI to enable periodical rake task to cleanup unused LFS files
- in
Project Settings - Repository - Repository cleanup
, add an UI option to enable this "LFS cleanup"