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class="">To start a container, use lxc-start -n CN. By default
lxc-start will execute /sbin/init
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#e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1px; font-family: 'Georgia','Times','Times New Roman','serif'; background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">"/var/cache/lxc</span> is where caches of distribution data are stored to
speed up multiple container creations."</div><div style="" class=""> <br style="" class="">So the cache is not a reflexion of your VE. The next time you want to recreate a VE, the content of the cache/lxc directory will be use to create an initial VE. <br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">To find why your VE is that size, run du -s <b style="" class="">/usr/share/vnuml/filesystems | sort -rn | head -20, or something of the kind. <br></b></div><br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <font style="" class="" face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:27 AM,
"lxc-users-request@lists.linuxcontainers.org" <lxc-users-request@lists.linuxcontainers.org> wrote:<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""> <div style="" class="">----- Forwarded Message -----<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Send lxc-users mailing list submissions to<br style="" class=""> <a style="" class="" ymailto="mailto:lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org" href="mailto:lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org">lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org</a><br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br style="" class=""> <a style="" class="" href="http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users" target="_blank">http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users</a><br style="" class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br style="" class=""> <a style="" class=""
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class="" dir="ltr">Hi,<div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class="">I'm right now working in a project comparing SIMCTL (VNUML utility, UML) with LxC. In VNUML the aprox. size of virtual machines filesystems located in /usr/share/vnuml/filesystems are 2GB: </div>
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><b style="" class="">marcel@ubuntu:/usr/share/vnuml/filesystems$ ls -lh<br style="" class=""></b></div><div style="" class=""><b style="" class="">total 4.1G</b></div><div style="" class=""><b style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Oct 9 2013 debian5.fs</b></div><div style="" class=""><b style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Jul 3 07:52 debian6.fs</b></div>
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div></div><div style="" class="">And the size of a LxC rootfs is 246MB:</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class=""><img class="" src="cid:1.3823820368@web120204.mail.ne1.yahoo.com" alt="Imatge inserida 1" style="margin-right:0px;"><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class=""><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class="">How is this possible and which is the explanation of this? The difference of sizes is huge!</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class="">Thanks,</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class=""><b class="" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;"><font style="" class="" color="#666666">Marcel Sánchez Toledano</font></b><br style="" class="">
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Possybly your lxc installation uses links instead of real files?<br style="" class="">
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Regards<br style="" class="">
Oliver<br style="" class="">
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<div style="" class="">On 17.07.2014 14:12, Marcel Sánchez
Toledano wrote:<br style="" class="">
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<div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Hi,
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<div style="" class="">I'm right now working in a project comparing SIMCTL (VNUML
utility, UML) with LxC. In VNUML the aprox. size of virtual
machines filesystems located in /usr/share/vnuml/filesystems
are 2GB: </div>
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</div>
<div style="" class="">
<div style="" class=""><b style="" class="">marcel@ubuntu:/usr/share/vnuml/filesystems$ ls -lh<br style="" class="">
</b></div>
<div style="" class=""><b style="" class="">total 4.1G</b></div>
<div style="" class=""><b style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Oct 9 2013 debian5.fs</b></div>
<div style="" class=""><b style="" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Jul 3 07:52 debian6.fs</b></div>
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</div>
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</div>
</div>
<div style="" class="">And the size of a LxC rootfs is 246MB:</div>
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</div>
<div style="" class=""><img class="" src="cid:2.3823820368@web120204.mail.ne1.yahoo.com" alt="Imatge
inserida 1" style="margin-right:0px;"><br style="" class="">
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<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
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<div style="" class="">How is this possible and which is the explanation of
this? The difference of sizes is huge!</div>
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</div>
<div style="" class="">Thanks,</div>
<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="">
</div>
<div style="" class=""><b class="" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;"><font style="" class="" color="#666666">Marcel Sánchez Toledano</font></b><br style="" class="">
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