# Environment empty of files

**URL:** <https://renku.discourse.group/t/environment-empty-of-files/398>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [20 August 2021 07:52 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/environment-empty-of-files/398 "2021-08-20T07:52:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![lusamino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/lusamino/32/227_2.png) [@lusamino](https://renku.discourse.group/u/lusamino)\
**Post date:** [20 August 2021 07:52 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/environment-empty-of-files/398/1 "2021-08-20T07:52:38Z")

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Hi to all,

I am trying to start an environment for a repo I used a couple of months ago. Back then, it was working perfectly. However, when creating the environment now and accessing it, I cannot find anything in there but a folder called `lost+found`. But nothing more, none of the folders or files I can see on `git`.

 ![Screenshot 2021-08-20 at 09.51.40](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/renku/original/1X/17b7a77dbfd470f4f16a7c932284202fee4b1c98.png)

The last Docker image was created perfectly, and inside the environment, I tried to switch the branch, but it is not possible as there is not any `.git` folder. What should I do?

Thanks!  
Cheers  
Luis

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**Author:** ![pameladelgado](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/pameladelgado/32/28_2.png) [@pameladelgado](https://renku.discourse.group/u/pameladelgado)\
**Post date:** [20 August 2021 07:57 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/environment-empty-of-files/398/2 "2021-08-20T07:57:27Z")

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hi @lusamino

it looks like git-clone did not work properly in your environment, this could be happening if you have more data (including LFS files if you enable auto-fetch) than the disk size you asked for when creating the environment. Could you verify and try requesting a bigger disk size than the size of the data?

Best,  
Pamela

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**Author:** ![lusamino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/lusamino/32/227_2.png) [@lusamino](https://renku.discourse.group/u/lusamino)\
**Post date:** [20 August 2021 08:04 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/environment-empty-of-files/398/3 "2021-08-20T08:04:20Z")

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Wow, it worked! Thank you so much @pameladelgado , and thanks to your super prompt solution!

However, I am still a bit puzzled because, according to git [https://limited.renku.ch/gitlab/sluis/democrasci-machine-tr](https://limited.renku.ch/gitlab/sluis/democrasci-machine-tr), the total size of the repo is around 11GB, which is not a lot. And most of those files are on LFS, and I never use auto fetch. In any case, it worked, fantastic! 😄

Thank you so much  
Best regards  
Luis

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**Author:** ![pameladelgado](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/pameladelgado/32/28_2.png) [@pameladelgado](https://renku.discourse.group/u/pameladelgado)\
**Post date:** [20 August 2021 08:13 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/environment-empty-of-files/398/4 "2021-08-20T08:13:15Z")

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Great to know it worked! 😃  
Now that you have your environment up with the data you can inspect better the disk usage and see what is occupying the disk and by how much.

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![lusamino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/renku.discourse.group/lusamino/32/227_2.png) [@lusamino](https://renku.discourse.group/u/lusamino)\
**Post date:** [20 August 2021 08:23 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/environment-empty-of-files/398/5 "2021-08-20T08:23:31Z")

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Inspecting now with `du` I cannot find the reason for that. After downloading a couple of things with `lfs`, still the disk usage of the repo is below 6G. I don’t know why that error happened in the first place. In any case, problem solved. Thank you so much!

Cheers!