On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com> wrote: > Quoting Fajar A. Nugraha (l...@fajar.net): >> Creating a container with "lxc-create -t ubuntu" on ubuntu 12.04 amd64 >> currently results in over 300MB root filesystem. However, almost >> 100MBs of it are cached package files (/var/cache/apt/archives/*). >> Running "apt-get clean" freed it. >> >> Is there a particular reason to keep the package files after container >> creation? > > Hm. Well I personally actually do end up using those often - I create a > container; quickly build a new version of a package; do a test; re-install > from /var/cache/apt/archives to do another test; etc. > > But that's not to say mine shouldn't be a special case, with the default > being to save space.
Yup. Special cases like that can be catered using a private proxy or something similar. > Do you mind opening a bug against the ubuntu package > for that? (http://pad.lv/u/lxc) I've got another small template fix to > push anyway. (I'll post the patch to lxc-devel when done.) > > Thanks for the suggestion. Done. FWIW, for those interested in having the smallest ubuntu container, my test result is: - original lxc-ubuntu: 386M disk space used - apt-get clean: reduced to 242M - install and use localepurge, keeping en and en_US only: reduced to 233M - change debootstrap command to include "--variant=minbase" while adding "iputils-ping,isc-dhcp-client,sudo" to list of packages, followed the above three: reduced to 216M IMHO space reduction from the last two doesn't warrant the additional hassle, so the bug report only suggests running "apt-get clean" like my original mail. Using a backstore with gzip compression (e.g. btrfs, zfs) also provides good space saving. -- Fajar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
