default size of root fs

István leccine at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 19:38:48 UTC 2010


Yes this is the point. Why do we stick to 2G if there is a bigger demand on
10 or more gigabytes.

I.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Brian LaMere <brian at cukerinteractive.com>wrote:

> I think the idea is reducing repeated effort.  If 1 person spends an hour,
> to keep 1000 people from spending 30 minutes, then time has been saved.
>  It's for this reason we don't all write our own kernels!
>
> I, for instance, have the base vanilla image I did with the little
> createfedorawhatever script, then I add other stuff for various images.
>  That way if I need several more X type systems, I already have them built
> out and tada - there they are.  That said, I'm not necessarily the target
> audience for the AMI, either.
>
> So the question is - those who are, what will they typically need?  Several
> chimed in about the 2G / size, so jforbes has already changed that to 10G
> for the next image.  In the mean time, serving things out of the additional
> mounts is probably better to do anyway.  My note about that was just for
> people who want to resolve issues prior to his releasing the new AMIs.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Dima Brodsky <ddbrodsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You could also build/publish your own custom image of the FC14 image
>> but with a 10gig root partition ... that's what I did.
>>
>> ttyl
>> Dima
>>
>> On 6-Dec-10, at 9:58 AM, Brian LaMere wrote:
>>
>> > you could always just deploy the lamp stuff to the other two dirs
>> > mounted - no reason mysql databases couldn't be in /data, for
>> > instance.  /var/lib/mysql doesn't really make that much sense for a
>> > place to actually /leave/ it, after all ;)
>> >
>> > Brian
>> >
>> > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:03 AM, István <leccine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Brilliant!
>> >
>> > . In the meantime I am trying to resize the root fs somehow
>> > splitting /dev/xvdc for /var and so on.
>> >
>> > Thank you guys.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Istvan
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Marek Goldmann <mgoldman at redhat.com>
>> > wrote
>> >
>> > Hi Istvan,
>> >
>> > Yes, we've talked about this before. Whole 10GB will be used for S3-
>> > based AMIs once we publish updated AMIs, right Justin?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > --Marek
>> >
>> > On 2010-12-05, at 13:10, István wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hey,
>> > >
>> > > Don't you think it was a good idea to have at least 10G for / in
>> > FC14 EC2 image?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > 2G is a bit small comparing the available many 100G space, it is
>> > hardly enough for typical LAMP installations or any kind of
>> > production server even if you store the content in /mnt.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > > Istvan
>> > >
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