[fedora-virt] Fwd: Re: How To Get Started With Virtualization In Fedora 16

[Bob Cochran]

On 11/14/11 4:23 AM, Daniel Sanabria wrote:
>
> On 13 November 2011 21:08, Bob Cochran <bcochran13 at verizon.net 
> <mailto:bcochran13 at verizon.net>> 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