On 3/6/16 8:02 AM, Merlijn van Deen (valhallasw) wrote:
On 5 March 2016 at 20:18, Mr. Maximilian Doerr
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
38G 523df61c-07f0-41ba-924d-e2b8e474b4d7 tools-exec-cyberbot
tools marc
What on Earth could Cyberbot be generating? Nothing in its folder
amounts to that size!!!!
The storage is 'flexible', but it doesn't shrink. This means that if
you have a 80GB disk, with only 20GB filled, it will use 20GB on the
VM server. If you then fill the disk, it will use 80GB on the VM
server. However, if you now delete 60GB of data, it will /still/ use
80GB on the VM server. Andrew pointed out in an earlier email that
it's possible to reclaim the space by shutting down the instance and
compressing it, or by creating a new instance.
I ran a test of this on Friday and the recompressing process (qemu-img
convert -O qcow2) didn't actually save me much space -- the instance had
about 50 Gb of 'empty' space in it but recomressing only recaptured
about 2Gb. I'm not sure if there's a better process than the one I'm
using; it is nonetheless useful to delete unneeded files, though, since
it prevents future footprint growth.
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