Issue Summary

In older releases of redpanda 
- earlier than release 24.2.16 
- earlier than release 24.3.4 

There is a scenario where disk space could be taken up by an accumulation of snapshot.partial.* files in the /var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/kvstore/*/* directory,
 

Technical Details

The snapshot.partial.* files are intermediate files created during snapshot creation and should be deleted under normal operations. 

However, due to a bug, older files were not being cleared from the kvstore directories after an abrupt shutdown of Redpanda.

A  fix was implemented to clear up these files on Redpanda startup 

Resolution

The bug is fixed in these releases :
24.3.4(and higher) via PR #24845
24.2.16(and higher) via PR #24843 
25.x