<HTML><html><head></head><body>I ran:<BR>
cd /var/lib/nova/instances; find -name "disk*" | xargs -n1 qemu-img info | grep backing | sed -e's/.*file: //' -e 's/ .*//' | sort | uniq > /tmp/inuse<BR>
then I removed some of the old _base files that did not exist in /tmp/inuse<BR>
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From: <a href="mailto:mikalstill@gmail.com">mikalstill@gmail.com</a> [mikalstill@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Michael Still [mikal@stillhq.com]<BR>
Sent: 13 March 2013 14:39<BR>
To: Conor Glynn<BR>
Cc: <a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><BR>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] /var/lib/nova/instances fs filled up corrupting my Linux instances<BR>
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Conor Glynn <cglynn@sportingindex.com> wrote:<BR>
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> I had a problem where /var/lib/nova/instances fs filled up causing problems<BR>
> with all my running instances... I have cleared out the old unused instance<BR>
> data and increased the filesystem and can boot and see windows instances...<BR>
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Can you define a bit more "unused instance data"? Did you for example<BR>
delete files from the _base directory?<BR>
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Michael<BR>
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