On 07/05/2021 22:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 07/05/2021 22.58, Sid Boyce wrote:
I have a colleague (erstwhile) in Australia who ran into the problem and couldn't understand why.
One PC with a 40GB hard drive and another with a 40GB SSD both with the
same number of snapshots but only the SSD complaining of no space left.
After a lot of checking I asked him to delete a number of snapshots (reduced from 20 and 20 to 10 and 10) which now shows only 3.9GB used.
Later I'll file a bug as this could force someone who is not very Linux
savvy to do a fresh install or even move to another distro.
SSD or rotating rust has no difference. Further analysis would have found the real cause.
It is perfectly known issue that a small hard disk with snapshots is a bad idea. You need at least 3 times the size you would normally use.
Understood. That's why I normally go for as large as I can get and over time 1TB -> 2TB --> 5TB and I have a 6TB on standby in case of a failure. The user installed openSUSE Leap because he doesn't like Windows or Ubuntu or other distros, added to that is the performance of modest hardware. The doc says >16GB and snapshots will be enabled which gives the impression that 40GB would hit no problems. What puzzled him was that the 40GB SSD experiencing the problem and the 40GB hard drive was OK .... obviously the SSD was loaded with more apps, videos, etc. than the hard drive. Life was sweet until suddenly "zypper dup" complained. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks