[ale] SuSE disk volumes?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 14:22:57 EST 2019


So a subvolume is sortof partition-like but doesn't actually have a
partition boundary.

On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 13:15 -0600, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> 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
> > > thepartitioning tool in yast to see the BtrFS configuration.  You
> > > may alsowant 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
> > > > iscomposed (improperly) of files from a previous VM snapshot
> > > > set that wasnot 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
> > yougain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog
> > on hisown tail. It won't fatten the dog.- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark
> > Twain
> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> > 
> 
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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

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/

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