-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:12:36PM -0800, Drew White wrote: > On Monday, 14 November 2016 17:19:43 UTC+11, Drew White wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm trying to restore a guest. > > I have / which has 2.1 GB free. (The root drive where things exist) > > Then I have my /var/lib/qubes with 78 GB free. (drive which contains all my > > Guests) > > > > I try to restore a guest which takes up ~ 48 GB. > > > > Upon initialising the restore script, my / drive starts to fill up > > completely. > > And then the software says it has errors (specifically, no space left on > > drive). > > > > It's already extracted a file list to the correct directory on > > /var/lib/qubes. > > > > Why does it tell me the drive is full when there is over 78 GB free and it > > should be using /var/lib/qubes not / ? > > > > Is this a bug in the Qubes Restore? > > Only way I found to work around this bug is to perform the following.. > > On secondary drive create a directory for holding information.. > Get to the second stage of the restore. > Open the /var/tmp directory. > Delete the restore_XXXXXX directory > Create a link of that name in the /var/tmp directory that links to the > directory on the other drive. > > Doing this meant that the actual usage of drive space never went over 200 MB > for that folder. > > The system was unable to extract the menus and apps.templates directory and a > few other meaningless things that wouldn't prevent the system from working. > > Why when it's targeting in your /var/tmp directory does it absorb the / disk > drive in a matter of seconds? > > Is it just a bug in the code somewhere? > Or is it a file system thing? > Or is it the "stick-bit" ? > > I created a new directory there with no sticky bit, and the entire restore > utility couldn't extract to that directory. > > Only way around it was to create the new directory and link it to a folder on > the storage drive.
Yes, /var/tmp is used to restore the data and there is (currently) no option to use alternative location. So you method with symlinking /var/tmp is currently one of the best what you can do... - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYKinCAAoJENuP0xzK19csTKsH/jU+LocZh9XnubGW0lcPGP+k abQqZoJ5MMzcAbEoT3zRSCJwyS5sPs28vCIAPOAThSj8DYtVOG/V8k4ZV1XCKcOR 5C8ScAfAd/6m8ruNGw3vipATy4taEAWXK5vgdB5z2PvdnpLptMYgCIsQF81+fCB/ dFhFkecGYww2StRRVXY2xLTqG2k+Og9jX9lm16KVY8A1h+F+dhAdgZPwphI66JpW JiiHC98GEr5naLvEGKJTjm4R1sPPvGmmZsbRGHfD9Q0T6v3B2wCDdbVAzPC2r5sA gSE4DS30luVYN9UPL6futzEqAbgrRGxMJIhsWeDfJ+oc58ZknMWl3FIXEay750g= =CoOJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20161114211650.GB3417%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
