Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 04:51 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 20:56, Robert Nichols wrote: What I do is have a separate logical volume for /var/lib/libvirt, with /var/lib/libvirt/etc bind-mounted to /etc/libvirt. It keeps all the libvirt stuff together, since the backup requirements there are q

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/25/2016 2:51 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: Good point that I should have mentioned earlier. Remember that if _anything_ in the VM changes (such as a log entry), then the host system will see the virtual disk as changed and back the whole thing up. You can end up backing up 20 GiB per day ju

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread J Martin Rushton
On 25/09/16 20:56, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/25/2016 12:23 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: >> >> >> On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: >>> On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350G

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 4:33 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > On 9/

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/25/2016 12:56 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: What I do is have a separate logical volume for /var/lib/libvirt, with /var/lib/libvirt/etc bind-mounted to /etc/libvirt. It keeps all the libvirt stuff together, since the backup requirements there are quite different from the rest of the system. t

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 03:34:29PM -0400, TE Dukes wrote: > > Thought I'd give 7.0 a try before I upgrade from 6.8. > > I know you can use yum to install groups but I don't know what the groups > are. > $ yum grouplist jl -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd.

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 12:23 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with virt

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Mike McCarthy, W1NR > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 3:12 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > &

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 3:06 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > On 9/25

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
> [Thomas E Dukes] > > I was about to head off to Bestbuy and pickup a 1TB SATA drive but I think > I'm going to hold off for now and use /home for the VMs. > > Thanks!! > > I find that putting the virtual machine disks on their own spindle boosts performance SIGNIFICANTLY, especially if you are

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/25/2016 11:51 AM, TE Dukes wrote: I deleted the VM I setup yesterday. I used the CentOS 7 minimal iso, probably should have used the full iso. It didn't have any choices of packages to install, that I saw. I wanted to setup a server. 'a server' ? what, a web server? a file server? a em

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Alice Wonder > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:40 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > >

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of J Martin Rushton > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:23 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > >

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Robert Nichols > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:03 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition > > On 09/25

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Alice Wonder
On 09/25/2016 10:23 AM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with vi

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread J Martin Rushton
On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. >> >> I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. >> >> I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the roo

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the root partition to get very low. I would like to move /var from t