[lxc-users] About size of images

[Marcel Sánchez Toledano]

Hi again,

Anyone who knows about this can tell us something? I need some information
about this.

Thank you agin,


*Marcel Sánchez Toledano*



2014-07-17 14:46 GMT+02:00 Marcel Sánchez Toledano <marcelsanchezt at gmail.com
>:

> You mean symbolic links? I don't think so.
>
> Anyway, a *du -hs* in that folder should return the real size, including
> the sizes of symbolic links original files.
>
>
>
> *Marcel Sánchez Toledano*
>
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> 2014-07-17 14:19 GMT+02:00 Oliver Rath <rath at mglug.de>:
>
>  Possybly your lxc installation uses links instead of real files?
>>
>> Regards
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>>
>> On 17.07.2014 14:12, Marcel Sánchez Toledano wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  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:
>>
>>
>> *marcel at ubuntu:/usr/share/vnuml/filesystems$ ls -lh *
>> *total 4.1G*
>> *-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Oct  9  2013 debian5.fs*
>> *-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Jul  3 07:52 debian6.fs*
>>
>>
>>  And the size of a LxC rootfs is 246MB:
>>
>>  [image: Imatge inserida 1]
>>
>>
>>  How is this possible and which is the explanation of this? The
>> difference of sizes is huge!
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  *Marcel Sánchez Toledano*
>>
>>
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