# witcheer's Wingtips #6: if your Hermes box fills its disk, it's likely not the logs

Written by [witcheer](https://x.com/witcheer) at Nous Research. Republished with credit.

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Published: 2026-06-25  
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Hermes Wingtips #6: if your Hermes box fills its disk, it's likely not the logs. 

the unbounded growers are state-snapshots (750MB on mine), per-run cron output (1,500+ files), and stdout if your host pipes it to a file. 

run the disk-cleanup plugin and watch those three before the "no space left" crash.