[Openstack] [xs-devel] Delete the imported VM image to release space -- Sisu
Sisu Xi
xisisu at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 15:53:44 UTC 2014
Hi, Chao and Bob:
Thanks for your reply!
Seems the data is stored in:
/opt/stack/data/swift/drivers/sdb1/1/sdb1/objects/*
I just delete everything in that folder and reboot and restack, the disk
space is freed now! :)
Thanks very much!
Sisu
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Bob Ball <bob.ball at citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi Sisu,
>
>
>
> Sorry – I understand now. When you upload an image to glance it will get
> stored in the DevStackOSDomU by default, as that is where Swift is storing
> it’s data.
>
> The data is likely in /opt/stack/data/swift but is likely still owned by
> the glance service account. Unfortunately by rebooting the machine you
> caused devstack to restart. It’s very possible that the glance image
> repository is not maintained between devstack runs – if so, the image could
> be ‘lost’ within swift.
>
>
>
> We typically only use very small virtual machines for testing (which is
> the primary purpose of the devstack-setup) which is why we have not seen
> such space used in the DomU.
>
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> *From:* Sisu Xi [mailto:xisisu at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 16 June 2014 16:36
> *To:* xs-devel at lists.xenserver.org
> *Cc:* openstack at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] [xs-devel] Delete the imported VM image to
> release space -- Sisu
>
>
>
> Hi, Bob:
>
>
>
> But when I port image into nova, I need to get it into DevStackOSDomU,
> right?
>
>
>
> I just don't know why the disk is full. Here is the process:
>
> 1. port self-build image using glance image-create;
>
> 2. shutdown machine
>
> 3. boot machine up, the disk space is gone, and I don't know how to free
> it.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Sisu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:43 AM, Bob Ball <bob.ball at citrix.com> wrote:
>
> Nothing should be downloading files to DevStackOSDomU; they get downloaded
> straight into dom0 when you create an image.
>
>
>
> Why do you think the missing disk space is related to mysql, or to /var?
>
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> *From:* xs-devel-request at lists.xenserver.org [mailto:
> xs-devel-request at lists.xenserver.org] *On Behalf Of *Sisu Xi
> *Sent:* 14 June 2014 23:19
> *To:* xs-devel at lists.xenserver.org; openstack at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* [xs-devel] Delete the imported VM image to release space --
> Sisu
>
>
>
> Hi, all:
>
>
>
> I am using OpenStack with XenServer. I am using a pre-build image found in:
>
> http://downloads.vmd.citrix.com/OpenStack/
>
> The image file is devstack-havana.xva.
>
>
>
> This image has a disk size of 40G, I tried to import a self-build 15G
> image, it worked just fine.
>
>
>
> When I reboot the machine, the previously imported 15G image is gone
> (which is expected).
>
> stack at DevStackOSDomU:~$ glance image-list
>
>
> +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------------+----------+--------+
>
> | ID | Name |
> Disk Format | Container Format | Size | Status |
>
>
> +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------------+----------+--------+
>
> | 22bcc4ed-c412-495d-995c-bdfc571e0991 | cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk |
> vhd | ovf | 9220018 | active |
>
> | 93aefd5f-3e75-4969-a013-e49e9c85163d | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec |
> ami | ami | 25165824 | active |
>
> | 4d63a0d5-91e0-4fcb-944c-9fa25e7549e8 | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec-kernel |
> aki | aki | 4955792 | active |
>
> | d8c961b7-5fe1-4520-8fa3-8bba97729eeb | cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec-ramdisk |
> ari | ari | 3714968 | active |
>
>
> +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+-------------+------------------+----------+--------+
>
>
>
>
>
> However, the disk-space is not released. And I cannot find the previously
> imported image.
>
> ---------result of df-ah---------
>
> root at DevStackOSDomU:/var/lib/mysql# df -ah
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>
> /dev/xvda1 38G 33G 3.1G 92% /
>
> proc 0 0 0 - /proc
>
> sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
>
> none 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/fuse/connections
>
> none 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/debug
>
> none 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/security
>
> udev 1.5G 4.0K 1.5G 1% /dev
>
> devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
>
> tmpfs 300M 288K 300M 1% /run
>
> none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
>
> none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /run/shm
>
> none 0 0 0 - /proc/xen
>
>
>
> I checked the /var/lib/mysql, and also tried to use "du -a /var | sort -n
> -r | head -n 10" to find the top 10 files, but still cannot find any file
> larger than 1G.
>
>
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
>
>
>
> Thanks very much!
>
>
>
> Sisu
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> *Sisu Xi, PhD Candidate*
>
>
> http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~xis/
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> Campus Box 1045
> Washington University in St. Louis
> One Brookings Drive
> St. Louis, MO 63130
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> *Sisu Xi, PhD Candidate*
>
>
> http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~xis/
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> Campus Box 1045
> Washington University in St. Louis
> One Brookings Drive
> St. Louis, MO 63130
>
--
*Sisu Xi, PhD Candidate*
http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~xis/
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Campus Box 1045
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
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