From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 27401@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#27401] [PATCH] doc: Suggest a QEMU image size large enough for the system examples.
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:03:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760fq7d0a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170619214820.GA2317@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:48:20 -0400")
Leo Famulari writes:
>> LGTM, however -- What about something like this patch too? I seems that
>> the VMs we create (although they are of the ballooning cow2 kind), are
>> 2GiB -- i.e., almost unusable for Real Stuff (TM)?
>
> I chose 2GiB for those images because it's pretty easy to grow a
> partition and ext4 filesystem from a running system. On the other hand,
> I couldn't find an easy way to shrink them.
>
> We can't predict the size of the virtual block device storage provided
> by a VPS hoster,
Ah, sure. I missed that aspect.
> so I chose this small size with these expectations:
> 1) 2GiB will never be too big
Yes.
> 2) users will resize after booting
When I was asked to help with this, I was confronted with a 2GiB sda1
and right behind that an EFI sda2. That was running in vmware (don't
ask ;-). We hesitated, removed the sda2 and did the resize thing.
Sadly I have no further information, instead of testing the reboot we
decided to go for qemu.
> I didn't come up with a better solution for the problem of not knowing
> the storage size in advance. What do you think?
Yes, I think you made the right choice.
Greetings,
janneke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-20 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-17 5:14 [bug#27401] [PATCH] doc: Suggest a QEMU image size large enough for the system examples Leo Famulari
2017-06-17 12:20 ` Marius Bakke
2017-06-19 17:55 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-06-19 21:48 ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-20 18:03 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2017-06-23 21:13 ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-26 11:51 ` [bug#27401] Guessing the disk image size in 'guix system' Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-29 22:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
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