What a lot of people do Nux is to create the template with a smaller disk. After the first template is created, expand the original running VM, and then create a second VM, and so on. I know one person that has a CentOS with a 9 (7Gb Root/2GB SWAP), 18GB, and 27GB. And nothing except the Root volume changes.
Thank you, Matt On Feb 15, 2013, at 3:23 PM, "Clayton Weise" <cwe...@iswest.net<mailto:cwe...@iswest.net>> wrote: The size of the root disk is set based on the template, and it can't be changed. This has to do with the fact that new root volumes created from a template are actually created as a writable snapshot of the template. This is done to save space and also to create the VM faster, but the penalty is that all instances created from a template share the same size root volume. -----Original Message----- From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:49 AM To: Cloudstack users Subject: customising the ROOT disk Hi, When I'm creating a new instance is there a way to specify the size of the ROOT disk? I see it uses the template's size (which in my case is tiny) and I need to have it increased. Pointers? Thanks, Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro<http://www.nux.ro>
