From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Overfull Filesystems how to solve? Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:14:21 +0000 Message-ID: <3F56072B-E8DF-47F1-AF01-ABB69C08946B@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: <70bd4343d85cf136b677fc6d23370316a071e22d.camel@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6287247978486971266==" List-Id: --===============6287247978486971266== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, > On 18 Jan 2020, at 09:57, Jonatan Schlag wrot= e: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > Daniel encountered the problem that his root partition was written full > because of the qemu addon being too big (200 MB). See bug #12268 for > details. >=20 > So he suggested moving the path /usr/share/qemu to /var. I do not > really like this solution as there are standards how the filesystem > hierarchy works under Linux.=20 That was my suggestion for a quick fix. However, looking at the files in /usr/share/qemu, I am not sure what we actua= lly need. Can we not just delete some and we are fine again? https://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Dipfire-2.x.git;a=3Dblob;f=3Dconfig/rootfiles/pa= ckages/qemu;h=3De5c0cd18953c3de3121b43f40af277f29016b7f7;hb=3DHEAD The current root file lists things like EFI ROMs for ARM which we probably do= not support or need. BIOS ROMs for SPARC which we 100% do not support. If we= just do not ship those files, this problem can be solved without moving the = files. > Furthermore, as the systems become bigger (eg. moving python3 to the > core) this problem will become more relevant to us. So I would like to > start a discussion on how to solve this. Moving things to /var can only > be a temporary solution. Should we force a reinstallation, which solves > the root of the problem? Yes, we have a script to cleanup what we can. We still need to make sure that= the distribution is as small as possible and we have not been spending too m= uch time on this recently. Everything becomes bigger and bigger, but I would = suggest that we try to support the systems with the 2GB root partition for as= long as we can. Best, -Michael >=20 > Jonatan >=20 --===============6287247978486971266==--