check the storage space before trying to spin container

Metadata

Project: craft-providers
Number: #657
Type: issue
State: open
Author: dariuszd21
Labels: Type: Enhancement
Created: 2024-09-19 03:06 PM UTC
Updated: 2026-04-22 02:48 AM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Maintainer-filed enhancement to warn (or fail early) when host/LXD storage is nearly full before spinning up a build container; still open, with ownership and a concrete threshold unresolved after lengau questioned whether craft-providers is the right place.

Suggested action: keep open

Reason: The request is a valid, still-relevant UX improvement (builds currently fail "in the random moment" with an opaque error), it is authored by a maintainer and carries the 'Type: Enhancement' label, and nothing in the codebase addresses it — grepping craft-providers for 'disk_usage', 'shutil.disk', 'statvfs', 'psutil', 'free space' and 'storage' returns no pre-flight capacity check, and git log has no 'check available space' commit. It should stay open but is not ready to implement: the only comment, from @lengau, says "I'm not sure how we could feasibly do this or whether it's craft-providers's problem. Maybe craft-application should warn...", leaving ownership (craft-providers vs craft-application), the threshold ("e.g. in percentage"), and the LXD-vs-Multipass behavior undefined.

Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot

Impact: 35 Quick Win: 6 Complexity: 50 Confidence: 68 Actionability: 32

Issue body

### What needs to get done Check if there is sufficient storage space (e.g. in percentage) before creating the container, so it will not weirdly error out during the build. ### Why it needs to get done Currently we just run the container and it may fail in the random moment if the whole storage space is occupied or almost occupied. We should at least warn the user to clear out some space before build

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-10-02 08:20 PM UTC	stealth/space-bunny-alpha	Impact: 35 Quick Win: 6 Complexity: 50 Confidence: 68 Actionability: 32	keep open	Maintainer-filed enhancement to warn (or fail early) when host/LXD storage is nearly full before spinning up a build container; still open, with ownership and a concrete threshold unresolved after lengau questioned whether craft-providers is the right place.
2026-09-24 09:11 PM UTC	stealth/space-bunny-alpha	Impact: 42 Quick Win: 7 Complexity: 54 Confidence: 79 Actionability: 34	needs triage	Enhancement to check available storage before container creation or builds; ownership and a concrete threshold remain unresolved after a maintainer questioned whether craft-providers is responsible.
2026-09-05 07:19 AM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Impact: 50 Quick Win: 38 Staleness: 75 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 65 Support Request: 20	close stale	Enhancement to check storage space before container creation to prevent confusing build failures. Open 715 days with unclear ownership between craft-providers and craft-application.
2026-07-22 02:47 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 75 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 65 Support Request: 5	needs triage	Enhancement to verify available storage before container creation to prevent build failures. Currently under discussion regarding implementation scope and component ownership.
2026-07-10 03:37 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 70 Complexity: 20 Confidence: 65 Support Request: 0	needs triage	Enhancement to check available storage space before container creation to prevent build failures. Currently under discussion regarding implementation scope and feasibility, awaiting formal maintainer assessment.

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