Re: [fedora-virt] Fwd: Re: How To Get Started With Virtualization In Fedora 16
On 11/14/11 4:23 AM, Daniel Sanabria wrote:
On 13 November 2011 21:08, Bob Cochran <bcochran13(a)verizon.net
<mailto:bcochran13@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