# Cleanup deleted repositories

## post by jhonny.oliveira on May 18, 2021

Hi!

As part of our housekeeping activities, I have recently removed several repositories from Nexus (maven proxy). However, I have noticed that they are still around and consuming space. From the query I ran, I can see that the repos have been marked for deletion:

I already ran “Compact blob store”, unfortunately, it does not seem to make any difference.

Is there a way to clean-up this space?

Thank you!

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## post by este.nombre.esta.disponible on May 21, 2021

Hi,

I’m having the very same issue. Is there any way to remove repositories that are marked as “pending deletion”?

Kind regards.

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## post by mpiggott on May 21, 2021

Generally speaking there is a task that runs periodically in the background - [nexus-public/StorageFacetCleanupTaskManager.java at master · sonatype/nexus-public · GitHub](https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-public/blob/master/components/nexus-repository/src/main/java/org/sonatype/nexus/repository/storage/internal/StorageFacetCleanupTaskManager.java)

If it's not running the quartz trigger is probably broken. You could (while nexus is stopped) connect to the database and remove that task which Nexus will re-create on startup.

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## post by jhonny.oliveira on May 21, 2021

Thank you [@mpiggott](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mpiggott) for the information provided so far!

Can you please be a little bit more specific on the steps required to solve the issue? Can’t we do it via the WebUI?

Cheers!

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## post by mpiggott on May 28, 2021

I had some time and made a change to remove and recreate the task on startup which should be in 3.31 which I believe will fix the issue.

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## post by jhonny.oliveira on May 28, 2021

Looking forward for the upgrade.

Thank you!

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## post by pogacnik on Oct 21, 2024

I have the same problem, after removing the proxy repo, data was not removed.

Will any of these tasks clean some disk (I don’t want to reboot nexus)?

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## post by sebastien_picavet on Nov 26, 2024

Compact blob tasks are needed to claim the free space. First task must be done.

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## post by pogacnik on Nov 28, 2024

When you create “compact blob store” you have to set the repository, but what if you delete the entire repository, which task should I run to delete data from the deleted repository?

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## post by sebastien_picavet on Nov 28, 2024

Repository != blob

Deleting repository is not deleting the blob store.

If you have also deleted the blob store, files are staying in NEXUS_DIR/sonatype-work/nexus3/blobs. I have never tested, but in that case, I think you can also delete the directory (just rename it to be sure at the first time).