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

[Kees Bakker]

Thanks, that works.

Next, how do I change the volume size of an existing container?

On 25-09-18 17:01, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> 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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