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Virtual Disk Space on trac 11 JumpBox

Submitted by gordonkshort on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 7:13am

The virtual disk space on the trac 11 JumpBox is fixed and small. Both the system drive and the data drive are too small for production use. Expanding the drives takes a Herculean effort.

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Ok, well now I'm a second

Submitted by bholmes451 on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 1:16pm.

Ok, well now I'm a second person ;-)

I currently have an Redmine SVN Data disk that is 75% full (7.5 gb). The backup procedure (as released) currently uses the data disk to create the backup file prior to sending it anywhere. While I have resolved the backup problem I have been having I have been unable to upgrade to newer versions of your Jumpbox because of the size problem. While I'd like to reduce the size of the repository (by moving a couple of old projects) I would like to be able to upgrade in the mean time... The commands I have for creating a blank data disk are as follows (from Oracle VM Server resources) but I'd like some confirmation before I go ahead.

dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.xen bs=1k seek=4096k count=1

mkfs -t ext3 disk.xen

Thanks,

Ben

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Virtual Disk Space on trac 11 JumpBox

Submitted by godber on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 2:14pm.

You might be better off asking Oracle questions about Oracle VM Server, unfortunately I have no experience with it so anything I say would be an assumption. I imagine what you suggest is approximately correct.

Once you do have a working disk attached that the JumpBox can mount the process is roughly as follows:

  1. shutdown all services (apache, mysql)
  2. copy the contents from the old storage (/storage) disk to the new storage disk
  3. use e2fslabel to change the label on the old storage partition from "storage" to "oldstorage" and label the newly created. much larger partition "storage"
  4. reboot

You can optionally remove the old storage disk when you have shut the machine down. Let me know if you need any details on the latter process.

We are happy to help where we are qualified to do so.

Austin

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Virtual Disk Space on trac 11 JumpBox

Submitted by godber on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 9:10am.

10 GB is insufficient for Trac and SVN? You are the first person to express this concern in a very general sense. We have ways to improve this situation but had not yet heard that it was this big of a problem for people.

Austin

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