Pulp 3 contents location in Red Hat Satellite 6.10+

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.10+

Issue

• Pulp 3 contents location in Red Hat Satellite

Resolution

• Pulp 2 contents are stored in /var/lib/pulp/content/ path:

    # du -sh /var/lib/pulp/content/
  

• Pulp 3 contents are stored in /var/lib/pulp/media/artifact/ path:

    # du -sh /var/lib/pulp/media/artifact/
  

• To identify individual package or metadata artifact on the disk, follow this solution.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Pulp 3.0 Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Pulp 3.0-related Issues

Root Cause

• In Pulp 3, each content unit has a type (like .rpm or .deb) which that is defined by a plugin. Files that belong to a content unit are called Artifacts. These artifacts can be shared by multiple content units that can be added and removed from repositories.

Diagnostic Steps

• Check the contents storage space for /var/lib/pulp/ in Satellite

    # du -sch /var/lib/pulp/*
    16G	/var/lib/pulp/content       -> Pulp 2
    15G	/var/lib/pulp/media         -> Pulp 3
  

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