can't compress XEN images - no space left on device

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#1 Wed, 08/17/2011 - 09:33

SoftDux

can't compress XEN images - no space left on device

I tried to create a XEN image from an existing XEN virtual machine, but got an error that there's no space left on the device to create the image.

Where does CloudMin store temp images while creating them?

#2 Wed, 08/17/2011 - 09:46

andreychek

Howdy,

While I'm not entirely certain, let's pretend for a moment that it uses /tmp to do that. If that were the case, do you have enough space in /tmp to store a copy of one of your Xen images?

-Eric

#3 Wed, 08/17/2011 - 10:27

SoftDux

Hi Eric,

Well, if it does actually use /tmp, does it use /tmp on the CloudMin management server, or on the XEN server to compress the images?

And, how / where do I tell CloudMin to use a different folder instead? In our care /tmp is mounted seperately from / for security reasons and I see it's only 2.8GB on both servers

#4 Wed, 08/17/2011 - 20:12

andreychek

So that I can try and reproduce the problem you're having, can you walk me through what you're doing exactly?

Then, I can get a better idea of what's going on and offer better advice :-)

Thanks!

-Eric

#5 Thu, 08/18/2011 - 01:39

ronald

I created an image once or twice from an existing system.
The location on a CentOS machine is /var/webmin/server-manager
This is where my created image is on the Cloudmin server.

During the creation proces it might be possible that a /tmp folder is used, though I dont see where to change that..

#6 Sun, 08/21/2011 - 10:15

andreychek

After speaking with Jamie, it sounds like this would take place on the Cloudmin host.

What you may want to do is to go into Webmin -> Webmin -> Webmin Configuration -> Advanced Options, and set the Temporary files directory to something other than /tmp.

Since Cloudmin is a Webmin module, it would use Webmin's temp directory setting.

-Eric

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