I Think i found the answer. It appears this AMI was bundled with 3GB but there is no compelling reason to do so. I can recreate an AMI from the c1.xlarge AMI bundling it with e.g. 5GB. That should cover my needs. I honestly don't mind 5 minute start up times - coffee and a cigarette - or is there something more to it than just longer start up times?
Cheers and thanks Joy On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Saptarshi Guha <saptarshi.g...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > Both packages have HBAse 0.89.20100726 installed, the former is c1.xlarge > and the latter is medium). > I'm trying to install some extra packages (see [1]) > > By the time I've come to install R, I'm almost out of space on the root > device. I would like to add some packages to the > task nodes (which are laucnehd from the c1.xlarge instance) and install > thrift - but I can't even get to the point. > > The images start of with 3Gb on the root device and 2.3 used. By the time > it comes to the last yum, there is about << 200MB left. > R requires 444 mb. > > Q1: Are there ways to increase the size of the root device? > Q2: Any other ideas? > > Thanks for all your thoughts. > > Cheers > Joy > > > > [1] > > yum update > yum upgrade > > yum install -y gcc-c++.x86_64 > yum install -y ant automake libtool flex bison pkgconfig libevent-devel > ruby-devel php php-devel > yum install -y boost-devel libevent-devel libtool > yum install -y atlas-devel atlas-sse-devel atlas-sse2-devel > yum install -y R > >
