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Why Axolotl Users On RunPod Lose Checkpoints Silently And How To Catch It Before Your Job Starts
Community description: Axolotl is one of the cleanest fine-tuning frameworks available. The problem is not Axolotl. The...
Dev.to | Oct 15, 2026 | Francisco Booth
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I installed ComputeFence and then installed Axolotl 0. 20. 0. ✓ PyTorch 2. 8. 0+cu128 detected (CUDA available — NVIDIA A40) ✓ HF_HOME is set to /workspace/. cache/huggingface/ ⚠ Volume /workspace — 6. 0 GB free of 9. 3 GB (below 20 GB) ⚠ Root disk (/) — 16. 2 GB free of 20. 0 GB (below 20 GB) 4 warning(s) found. HF_HOME passed correctly pointing to the persistent volume. It checks GPU visibility, HF_HOME path, persistent volume detection, and disk headroom before billing starts.
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