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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_XX 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...
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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?
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