On 03/21/2015 05:32 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
I think there's a bug filed against snapper, that its default configuration is not doing a good enough job cleaning up snapshots in a default installation.
+1 Its possible to install on just 20G and have a usable system, provided, as Patrick points out, you don't go with one of the heavier GUIs or try for both Gnome and KDE. It might also help top have all logging done remotely. I've done this with ext4, BtrFS and ReiserFS. With ext4 I eventually ran into the problem that you preallocate the inode vs data ratio & hence spaces, a pice of idiocy that has been around since the days of UNIX V6 and before, and which I've written about many times. Sensible file systems such as XFS, ReiserFS and BtrFS don't succumb to this design flaw. The problem with BtrFS on a small disk (or partition) seems to be to do with snapper. I installed and let the immediate post install updates happen and after a few hours .... Well it seems if you have a small disk or partition snapper doesn't work well. Clean-up as disk fills doesn't happen. On that machine I shrunk other partitions and grew the BtrFS rootfs to 30G, cleaned up snapper, turned off the hourly snapshots and from then on the automatic clean-up seemed to work. The downside of the the Closet of Anxieties is its all old equipment from W/95 or W/Xp days and not endowed with large disks or lots of memory, so I find out about mis-behaviour with resource limits :-) -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org