[ale] SuSE disk volumes?

Beddingfield, Allen allen at ua.edu
Wed Jan 9 14:15:51 EST 2019


Yeah, that output is horrible.  Essentially you logically define 
whatever you want to be a "volume" for snapshot purposes.  df isn't 
smart enough to tell the difference, so it gives you that mess.  It is 
really one big "/", with subvolumes defined.
Allen B.

On 1/9/19 1:13 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Learned something new. Never used BtrFS. That output is rather 
> offputting! What does lsblk show?
> 
> On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 13:05 -0600, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
>> Not actually a problem - just BtrFS subvolumes.  Look in the
>> partitioning tool in yast to see the BtrFS configuration.  You may also
>> want to neuter the snapshot policy, or it will eventually fill up "/"
>>
>> On 1/9/19 1:03 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>>> fun. NOT!
>>>
>>> Check for disk errors and copy off anything you care about.
>>>
>>> Hmm. That .snapshots folder makes me think that that partition is
>>> composed (improperly) of files from a previous VM snapshot set that was
>>> not collapsed before export.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 13:39 -0500, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>>>> Am I the only one that thinks this is weird output for "df -h"?
>>>>
>>>> ###
>>>>
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /opt
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/tmp
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /tmp
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /.snapshots
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/lib/mariadb
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/lib/libvirt/images
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/lib/pgsql
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /usr/local
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/spool
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/cache
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /boot/grub2/i386-pc
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/crash
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /srv
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/opt
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/lib/mysql
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/lib/named
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/lib/mailman
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /home
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/log
>>>> /dev/sda2        14G  2.0G   11G  16% /var/lib/machines
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> James P. Kinney III
> 
> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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