[lxc-users] How to set default volume size using the "volume.size" property on the pool

[Stéphane Graber]

No worries, we tend to prefer support requests to go here or to
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org

The command should have actually been:

    lxc profile device set default root size 50GB

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 04:11:05PM +0200, Kees Bakker wrote:
> This is a follow up of https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/5069
> (( Sorry for creating the issue, Stéphane. I thought that "issues"
> were not just for bugs. ))
> 
> You said: "lxc profile set default root size 50GB should do the trick"
> 
> Alas, ...
> 
> root at maas:~# lxc profile set default root size 50GB
> Description:
>   Set profile configuration keys
> 
> Usage:
>   lxc profile set [<remote>:]<profile> <key> <value> [flags]
> 
> Global Flags:
>       --debug         Show all debug messages
>       --force-local   Force using the local unix socket
>   -h, --help          Print help
>   -v, --verbose       Show all information messages
>       --version       Print version number
> Error: Invalid number of arguments
> 
> Furthermore.
> Somewhere else I read your suggestion to set volume.size but
> I was not able to get anything useful result. I did set the
> volume,size of my storage pool, but new containers were still
> created with the 10GB default.
> 
> And, perhaps related, if I have a container with a bigger volume than 10GB,
> then it fails to copy that container. (Copying that container to another LXD
> server with BTRFS, succeeds without problem.)
> 
> Notice that I'm using LVM storage, on Ubuntu 18.04 with LXD/LXC 3.0.1
> -- Kees
> 
> 
> 
> On 24-09-18 08:56, Kees Bakker wrote:
> > This is still unanswered.
> >
> > How do I set the default volume size of the storage pool?
> >
> > On 13-09-18 10:19, Kees Bakker wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> Forgive my ignorance, but how would you do that? I have a setup with LVM
> >> and the default volume size is 10G. I wish to increase that default,
> >> what would be the command syntax? Also I want to see the current
> >> default settings, just so I know I'm on the right track.
> >>
> >> My pool is called "local".
> >>
> >> # lxc storage show local
> >> config:
> >>   lvm.thinpool_name: LXDThinPool
> >>   lvm.vg_name: local
> >> description: ""
> >> name: local
> >> driver: lvm
> >> used_by:
> >> - /1.0/containers/bionic01
> >> - /1.0/containers/kanboard
> >> - /1.0/containers/license4
> >> - /1.0/containers/usrv1
> >> - /1.0/containers/usrv1/snapshots/after-aptinstall-freeipa
> >> - /1.0/images/7079d12b3253102b829d0fdd6f1f693a1654057ec054542e9e7506c7cf54fa2e
> >> - /1.0/images/c395a7105278712478ec1dbfaab1865593fc11292f99afe01d5b94f1c34a9a3a
> >> - /1.0/profiles/default
> >> - /1.0/profiles/default_pub
> >> - /1.0/profiles/testprof
> >> status: Created
> >> locations:
> >> - maas
> >>
> >> There is no volume.size. Should I just add it?
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-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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