[lxc-users] lxc-users Digest, Vol 31, Issue 8

[Badiane Ka]

LXC

  
          
LXC
To start a container, use lxc-start -n CN. By default lxc-start will execute /sbin/init in the container.   
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"/var/cache/lxc is where caches of distribution data are stored to speed up multiple container creations."
 
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. 

To find why your VE is that size, run du -s /usr/share/vnuml/filesystems | sort -rn | head -20, or something of the kind. 




On Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:27 AM, "lxc-users-request at lists.linuxcontainers.org" <lxc-users-request at lists.linuxcontainers.org> wrote:
 


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Today's Topics:

   1. About size of images (Marcel Sánchez Toledano)
   2. Re: About size of images (Oliver Rath)

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:





How is this possible and which is the explanation of this? The difference of sizes is huge!

Thanks,

Marcel Sánchez Toledano


Possybly your lxc installation uses links instead of real files?

Regards
Oliver



On 17.07.2014 14:12, Marcel Sánchez Toledano wrote:

Hi, 
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>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: 
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>marcel at ubuntu:/usr/share/vnuml/filesystems$ ls -lh
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>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
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>
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>And the size of a LxC rootfs is 246MB:
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>How is this possible and which is the explanation of this? The difference of sizes is huge!
>
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>Thanks,
>
>
>Marcel Sánchez Toledano
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>
>
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