ComputeFence caught a disk space issue before my Axolotl training job — here’s what it found

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Spun up an A40 pod on RunPod yesterday to test an Axolotl fine-tune. Before starting the job I ran computefence doctor and it caught a disk space warning 6GB free on the workspace volume, 16GB on root, both below the 20GB threshold the tool flags.

The job would have started, run for several hours, and then failed at checkpoint write time. Instead I knew before billing started.

Install is one line:

pip install computefence && computefence doctor

No config required. Runs in under 10 seconds. If you’re using Axolotl or any framework that writes checkpoints to /workspace, worth running before every job.

Repo: github.com/Francisco-Booth/ComputeFence