On 11/14/11 4:23 AM, Daniel Sanabria wrote: > > On 13 November 2011 21:08, Bob Cochran <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Reposting to see if anyone will help with my beginner questions. > > Thanks > > Bob > > > The final issue is that the Fedora 16 host OS is installed on a > Mushkin > 240 Gb SSD drive, but the virt-manager graphical interface seems to > suggest that I have only 44 Gb of this space available for containers. > How can this be? I don't think the host system needs more than about 8 > Gb of space....there should be at least 200 Gb of space available > on the > mushkin drive. (Now I'm wondering if my swap space was set to > twice the > amount of my physical RAM. I have 32 Gb installed memory. I must check > the size of my swap space.) > > > How big is /var ? I'm asking because if you are using the default > settings you might be restricted by your partition sizes.
Hi Dan, Yes I discovered exactly what you mean after studying the disk partitioning some more. / was not getting much space and most of it was going to /home which is the opposite of what I want: more space in /var. So I reinstalled Fedora 16 a second time with an extremely generous 21 Gb going to /home and / getting as much space as possible. Since I have 32 Gb of memory and this is my first experience with that much memory, I was rather put off when the swap partition got set to 32 Gb also, I don't think swap needs to be so big and I definitely do not want that space on an expensive SSD drive that I'd rather dedicate to being a container for virtual machines. So I'm probably going to reinstall Fedora 16 a third time to either dramatically cut down the swap partition size, or move the swap partition onto a "classic" (much slower) hard drive. Thanks for responding to my email. Bob _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
