How to increase disk space of an instance without using EBS ? Root file system size is only showing 10 GB. Is there a way to create a bigger file system without EBS ?
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.9G 3.3G 6.1G 35% /
tmpfs 874M 0 874M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 874M 84K 874M 1% /dev
tmpfs 874M 0 874M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb 335G 12G 307G 4% /mnt
As you can see in the output, a much bigger partition is mounted at /mnt. You can move some of the things on the root filesystem there by either remounting it at the appropriate location or add symlinks. There is no other way to add more diskspace if you don't want to resort to EBS or a network filesystem.
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I have mounted 600 GB of extra space in my AWS EC2 at /data. But as I started using Jenkins i realized that My Jenkins is not using any of that extra space and now I am left with only 1.5 GB of storage.
Is there any way to merge the extra storage with root storage?
Result of df -h command
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 7.9G 68K 7.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 7.9G 4.0K 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/xvda1 7.9G 6.3G 1.5G 82% /
/dev/xvdf 600G 1.8G 598G 1% /data
I want to merge /dev/xvda1 and /dev/xvdf.
Is it even possible?
Edit: Someone suggested to move my jenkins to new drive. If it will not not hamper my current work then i think it will be a good solution. Any opinions on this?
Quick way:
you can stop your jenkins instance and create AMI image on it.
Then create base on this image as a new EC2 instance with large storage directly.
I'm having difficulties to understand the disk size of my qcow2 image.
I have a CentOS 6 box running:
# virsh version
Compiled against library: libvirt 0.10.2
Using library: libvirt 0.10.2
Using API: QEMU 0.10.2
Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.12.1
I run couple guests there and without much activity on the guests I noticed the backup ( I do manual complete file copy with cp, no qcow2 based snaps) on one of my guests has grown 4 times. The other guests seem to behave normally and have normal backup size growth.
When I login to that guest I see that
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev
tmpfs 396M 5.5M 391M 2% /run
/dev/mapper/debian9--vg-root 188G 2.7G 176G 2% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda1 236M 62M 162M 28% /boot
tmpfs 89M 0 89M 0% /run/user/0
but the qcow2 file has grown from 5GB to
# du -h /backups/vm01/20180111/vm01.qcow2
19G /backups/vm01/20180111/vm01.qcow2
I found the size of qcow2 disk file grows rapidly and tried to "qemu-img convert" the backup file, but did not solve the problem. When I did dd if=/dev/zero of=vm01.qcow2 it ran until I ran out of space on that volume group ( more than the 19G ). I was expecting the qcow2 file to grow more or less with the size of the internal file system. Any hints what I may be doing wrong?
Regards,
Pavel
Unless you have TRIM/DISCARD enabled for the host filesystem, QEMU and the guest OS, the qcow2 file will never shrink in size. So most likely explanation is that something in the guest OS created a very large file for a short time and then deleted it again. the qcow2 image would have grown to hold this file, but once the file was deleted, the qcow2 image won't shrink again, without TRIM/DISCARD being available.
I'm using a DS4 Azure VM (Ubuntu 14.04). It comes with a 56GB local SSD.
I need to set up a 25GB swapfile in this local SSD. When I do df -h in the VM, I can see that it seems to be mapped to the /mnt/ folder. Following is the entire output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 29G 22G 6.4G 77% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 14G 4.0K 14G 1% /dev
tmpfs 2.8G 472K 2.8G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 14G 0 14G 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
none 64K 0 64K 0% /etc/network/interfaces.dynamic.d
/dev/sdb1 56G 97M 56G 1% /mnt
However, if I try to initialize a swapfile in /mnt, it still gets added to the available disk space in /dev/sda1.
What do I need to do to set up my swap file? An illustrative example would be great. Thanks in advance.
I normally use the following commands to set up a swapfile:
sudo fallocate -l 25G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
Update:
I went into /etc/waagent.conf, and tweaked the followed:
# Format if unformatted. If 'n', resource disk will not be mounted.
ResourceDisk.Format=y
# File system on the resource disk
# Typically ext3 or ext4. FreeBSD images should use 'ufs2' here.
ResourceDisk.Filesystem=ext4
# Mount point for the resource disk
ResourceDisk.MountPoint=/mnt
# Create and use swapfile on resource disk.
ResourceDisk.EnableSwap=y
# Size of the swapfile.
ResourceDisk.SwapSizeMB=26000
After this, I resized (and consequently rebooted) my Azure VM from the portal. Currently I can't tell whether the settings have taken effect. Are my settings correct and what's the best way to ensure they've taken effect?
You are right, we should modify /etc/waagent.conf to add a swap file.
By modifying the /etc/waagent.conf file and setting the following 3 parameters a swap file will be created in the directory defined by ResourceDisk.MountPoint
ResourceDisk.Format=y
ResourceDisk.EnableSwap=y
ResourceDisk.SwapSizeMB=26000
Then we should restart walinuxagent:
service walinuxagent restart
Commands to show the new swap space in use after agent restart:
dmesg | grep swap
root#ubuntu:~# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/mnt/swapfile file 26623996 0 -1
root#ubuntu:~# df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 3.4G 12K 3.4G 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 697M 412K 697M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 ext4 29G 869M 27G 4% /
none tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none tmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /run/shm
none tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
/dev/sdb1 ext4 99G 26G 68G 28% /mnt
I resized (and consequently rebooted) my Azure VM from the portal
I resized my VM, and the swap file does not lose.
Are my settings correct and what's the best way to ensure they've
taken effect?
After modify the /etc/waagent.conf and restart walinuxagent, we can use swapon -s to check it.
I used Cassandra to store my data. I use Centos.
The data seems always to be stored in the root partition, which is too small.
My file system partitions like
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/centos-root 50G 25G 26G 49% /
devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 7.8G 17M 7.8G 1% /run
tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2 494M 177M 318M 36% /boot
/dev/sda1 200M 9.8M 191M 5% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/centos-home 873G 66G 807G 8% /home
tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/1001
Obviously the root partition (50 GB) is much smaller than one at home (873GB).
Is there a way that I change a setup to enforce data storage using the
partition "/dev/mapper/centos-home" ?
I need to use the command "sudo service cassandra start" to activate Cassandra.
If without sudo, my authority doesn't allow me to activate Cassandra.
Thanks!
Edit the $CASSANDRA_HOME/conf/cassandra.yaml file (sometimes it is
located under /etc/cassandra also, depending on how you install
Cassandra)
Update the following properties
(only available since Cassandra 3.x) hints_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/hints // put your own directory here
data_file_directories: //put a list of directories here
/var/lib/cassandra/data
commitlog_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog // put your own directory here
saved_caches_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches // put your
own directory here
I have created an emulator yocto build VM. The *.vmdk file provided create an space of around 273MB. Its too small, when new terminal is opened its root memory gets full.
I can mount a drive but but it remians as external hdd.
Result of df -h
Filesystem size used available use% mounted on
/dev/root 273.5M 273.5M 0M 100% /
devtmpfs 500.0M 0 500.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs 500.3M 0 500.3M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 500.3M 9.4M 490.9M 2% /run
tmpfs 500.3M 0 500.3M 0% sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 500.3M 9.4M 490.9M 2% /etc/machine-id
tmpfs 500.3M 16.0K 500.3M 0% /tmp
Even I tried to change the ROOTFS and increase the size of root directory but it failed to increase.