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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2025.2

# Reclaim disk space by removing orphaned archive files

You can save disk space by removing orphaned archive files Versioned files that users submitted to a depot. and their associated metadata records. An orphaned file is a file that exists in the server depot's archive storage, but that lacks a reference. Archives with a reference count of `0` are rare, but might be created by incomplete p4 submit or p4 shelve commands or system crashes.

To reclaim that disk space:

1. Run p4 storage -l because it spawns a background process that looks for files in the specified //depotdirectory and its subdirectories that match the naming convention for the server's archive file format. Each file that is found along with its revision is checked for a matching entry in the db.storage table. If no such entry is found, a new record is created that describes the file and revision combination with a reference count of 0.
2. Run p4 storage -d to delete those 0 references records along with the associated archive file.

To learn more, see p4 storage in the P4 CLI Reference.

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