On 03/05/2014 11:40 AM, Georgios Dimitrakakis wrote: > I have an OpenStack installation with one compute and one controller node. > > The location of the instances is at: > > /var/lib/nova/instances at the compute node > > I would like to know the following: > > 1) If there is a way to move it to /home or any other partition without > breaking OpenStack. I don't mind to shutdown all instances. But I want > after moving it to be able to power them on. you could symlink /var/lib/nova/instances to the dir you want, after moving the instances
or just mount the lv, partition or whatever there > > Would it be safer if I just moved the entire "nova" dir or just the > "instances" dir? > Where do I configure the path in OpenStack? > > Besides "nova*" are there any other services that have to be restarted > in order for the new settings to apply? > > 2) Inside /var/lib/nova/instances there is another directory called: > > "_base" > > which appears to have a lot of data like ephemeral, swap and files with > name like this: > > "11dad6463b5e8b75d3e6bce75711cc889433b9a0" > > Is it OK if I completely remove this dir?? NO your instance's ephemeral storage is stored as Copy On Write from this files -- 1AE0 322E B8F7 4717 BDEA BF1D 44BB 1BA7 9F6C 6333 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
