# Disk Space Filling Up - Retained Messages

**URL:** <https://community.hivemq.com/t/disk-space-filling-up-retained-messages/242>\
**Category:** HiveMQ Community Edition\
**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.hivemq.com/t/disk-space-filling-up-retained-messages/242 "2020-06-23T21:40:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://community.hivemq.com/t/disk-space-filling-up-retained-messages/242/8 "2020-10-19T08:24:30Z")

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Hi @iot,

can you verify if your big persistence folder is linked to this issue?

> [@Disable LOG-Files in data](https://community.hivemq.com/t/disable-log-files-in-data/182):
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> With the HiveMQ CE 2020.2, in the directories “data/publish\_payload\_store//” and “data/retained\_messages//” log files of the form “LOG” or “LOG.old.\<timestamp?\>” are written like 2020/03/12-10:37:30.675432 343c RocksDB version: 6.5.2 2020/03/12-10:37:30.675562 343c Git sha rocksdb\_build\_git\_sha:@2498478d3f280372547d1272c785642ecfec6122@ 2020/03/12-10:37:30.675603 343c Compile date Dec 30 2019 2020/03/12-10:37:30.675635 343c DB SUMMARY 2020/03/12-10:37:30.678071 343c CURRENT file: CURRENT …

Kind regards,  
Michael from the HiveMQ team

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