Thanks Ivan. I got /tmp increased. Working on swap now. With Qubes 3.2, swap on a VM is xvdc1, so it is a mounted image from the main system. I just need to figure out what/where that is so I can bump it up a bit...or take the VM controlled approach you call "ugly". :)
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 18:53:26 +0300 Ivan Mitev <i...@maa.bz> wrote: >On 04/05/2018 06:19 PM, perkins.stu...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi. I'm new to Qubes, and I have an issue. I am attempting to >> create a VM template for a software package which needs a larger >> swap and /tmp space in order to install. Where are those controlled >> and how can I provision a Fedora VM with larger/non-standard swap >> and /tmp? > >fedora's /tmp uses tmpfs ; it's mounted by systemd at boot time. > >see `systemctl status tmp.mount` and >`/usr/lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount.d/30_qubes.conf to increase its size > >alternatively you can increase the size afterwards with > >mount -o remount,size=5G /tmp/ > >if you need to have a disk based tmp you'll have to mask the systemd >unit (`systemctl mask tmp.mount`) and put a fstab entry for /tmp ; but >maybe it'll break stuff... > >no idea about how to increase swap from dom0 on R3.2 ; alternatively >you can add swap with a file inside the vm but it's a bit ugly: > >dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=1000 >mkswap swapfile >swapon swapfile > > >hope this helps > >ivan > > > >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20180405130241.594e7a06%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
