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Hi Jeremy,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Stanley [mailto:fungi at yuggoth.org]
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 7:52 PM
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Infra] Question about disk partition
> 
> On 2014-01-23 13:55:21 -0800 (-0800), Andrew Woodward wrote:
> > I would think that the intent of the tests would be to use the /
> > opt partition that was attached to the instance. I would think
> > that we should be able to configure the resources to use /opt
> > instead.
> 
> It sounds to me like another manifestation of
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1268732 which we're addressing through
> several patches which hit much of what you suggest:
> 
>  * https://review.openstack.org/68782 (don't copy logs to /home)
> 
>  * https://review.openstack.org/68990 (git clones in /opt)
> 
>  * https://review.openstack.org/69075 (make query logging optional)

Thank you for doing it, now root partition usage has been reduced(almost 80% -> 10%):

ex) http://logs.openstack.org/42/64442/5/check/check-tempest-dsvm-full/1bf4b4b/logs/df.txt.gz
 Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/xvda1       40G  4.3G   34G  12% /
 udev            3.9G   12K  3.9G   1% /dev
 tmpfs           1.6G  312K  1.6G   1% /run
 none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
 none            3.9G  4.0K  3.9G   1% /run/shm
 /dev/xvde2       72G  9.8G   58G  15% /opt
 cgroup          3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
 /dev/loop0      6.0G   68M  6.0G   2% /opt/stack/data/swift/drives/sdb1

Great!

> > or hack /var to be inside /opt.
> 
> Not particularly trivial without a reboot, since getting file
> descriptors closed out on /var at a multi-user runevel is, well, not
> something I've ever had much luck at.
> 
> > Either way, growing the root volume would likely be the most
> > painful route we could take.
> 
> Not just painful, but mostly impossible. Our providers give us a
> tiny block device formatted and mounted as the root filesystem, plus
> a large ephemeral block device which we partition into /opt and swap
> when building a node from a snapshot.

I got it, thanks for the explanation also.


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi