You could start looking at 'read only' or 'shared' root and other filesystems.. the idea revolves around having guests LINK a master copy of Linux root file system or other filesystem in RO. Then bind mounting that with RW areas for config files, logs, etc.. Potentially a huge amount of DASD savings depending on how many Linux guests you run..
Here's a great redbook on the topic: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4322.html?Open Scott On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I removed many packages and in affect, put my Linux guests on a diet. Just > a few more questions: > > I used local yum servers and YaST2 to perform all my maintenance and > product installations. > > Can I remove the contents of the following which tends to grow. I think > these grow whenever I change the installation sources and YaST2 performs a > sync by default. > > /var/lib/zmd > /var/lib/zypp > > We clone our Linux guests from a master guest which have already been > converted to SLES10-SP2. Once I have my other Linux systems upgraded to > SP2, can I remove the following and stop mirroring these channels in yup > since SP2 is a replacement? > > /var/cache/yup/SLES10-SP1-Online > /var/cache/yup/SLES10-SP1-Updates > > Are there any other DASD space saving ideas? > > Thanks > > Peter > This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is > proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright > belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates ("PHI"). This Email is > intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If > you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for > delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby > notified > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately > notify the sender and permanently delete this Email and any copies. PHI > policies expressly prohibit employees from making defamatory or offensive > statements and infringing any copyright or any other legal right by Email > communication. PHI will not accept any liability in respect of such > communications. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
