Re: Cloud image partition size

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El Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:04:29 +0200
"Sandro \"red\" Mathys" <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:38:40PM +0200, Sandro red Mathys wrote:
> >> Now trying to launch the image as such (the m1.tiny flavor happens
> >> to come with a 1 GB root disk by default in OpenStack Havana), it
> >> will always fail.
> >>
> >> Therefore, I propose to change the partition size to 1024MB
> >> instead of 2048MB. Or even to just 600MB but clouds specify the
> >> root disk size in GBs rather than MBs anyway, and 600MB might
> >> limit further development stronger than really necessary.
> >
> > I *think* it will install into a partition size that big -- I'll
> > try. The problem is that just doing a 'yum update' tends to fill
> > the remaining space very quickly, making a 1GB image questionable
> > in pratical use right now.
> 
> [root@f20 ~]# df -h | grep vda
> /dev/vda1       9.9G  574M  9.3G   6% /
> [root@f20 ~]# yum update -y &> /dev/null
> [root@f20 ~]# df -h | grep vda
> /dev/vda1       9.9G  922M  8.9G  10% /
> [root@f20 ~]# yum clean all &> /dev/null
> [root@f20 ~]# df -h | grep vda
> /dev/vda1       9.9G  767M  9.1G   8% /
> 
> Okay, I guess that's valid concerns. The 1GB limit is within reach
> during an update. Still, for quick testing purposes, etc. 1GB
> instances are often spun up and for cases where that's not enough
> people can still start the instance with a bigger root disk and have
> it auto-resized.
> 
> Also, an install size of nearly 600MB feels kinda huge. I mean the
> LiveCDs are (or used to be) <=700MB and had full desktop environments
> running.

Live cds never had a <= 700MB size, they have always used compression
and been at least 2GB

Dennis
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