[Planetlab-devel] /plc/root.img volume full

[William Holloway]

Many thanks for the responses. I used the RPM based installation but
somehow, the link from /var/log to /data/var/log was not there. Now
that I've added it, all problems solved.

Thanks again,
William



On 8/28/07, Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
> Hi William
>
> You're right that root.img is created with a fixed capacity, and that
> sometimes this can be an issue
> However I am surprised because the logs, at least as far as /var/log is
> concerned, should go in a directory that is physically located under
> /plc/data, i.e. *not* in root.img.
> So provided that we are talking about /var/log/, it seems that your
> myplc does not behave as expected to this respect
>
> It would help if you could post the output of
> # chroot /plc/root df /var/log
> # ls -ld /plc/root/var/log
> # ls -ld /plc/data/var/log
>
> What you should see from the chroot:
> the /data directory is mounted on /plc/data, which is on your hard drive
> outside of root.img
> /var/log should be a link to /data/var/log
>
> -- Thierry
>
> William Holloway wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm running a private mini-Planet-Lab using myplc-0_4-rc1 and I was
> > having a problem logging into to the web interface. After some
> > digging, I determined that the source of the problem was that the
> > volume /plc/root.img was at capacity. If I clear out some of the
> > larger log files and restart the service, the web interface operates
> > normally. If I don't clear them out, the database server won't start.
> >
> > Is there a way that I can throttle up the amount of disk space
> > allocated for the plc image or alternately specify a different
> > location for the log files? Putting in a symbolic link didn't work. I
> > have the debug settings off in the configuration file but over time
> > the log files will fill the remaining space in that volume.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> > William
> >
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