How to solve ‘No space left on device’ on project zomboid server

After using Project Zomboid server for a while you will be hit by the error

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.io.IOException: No space left on device

This error is caused by having too many mini files on the disk,

For example, is when you look at the folder

/home/container/.cache/Saves/Multiplayer/

you won’t be able to view the contents using the web view as it may have like 50k+ mini files

This will cause the server not able to save all the files before the server starts that’s why the error occurs.

To solve this you need to locate servertest.ini

/home/container/.cache/Server

change

BackupsOnStart=true

to

BackupsOnStart=false

and click save content

Restart your project zomboid server. It should now start without the no space left error.

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