root partition too big ?

[rxrxrx]

After installing latest 2.0 iso, on a couple of servers,i noticed local storage is less than expected.
checked and here is the partition table (df -h)

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-root 69G 810M 65G 2% /
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 3.9G 220K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 41M 3.9G 2% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/pve-data 184G 188M 184G 1% /var/lib/vz
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 495M 34M 436M 8% /boot
/dev/fuse 30M 28K 30M 1% /etc/pve


root partition is 70GB, and usage is %2
is not that too much ?

 

[tom]

depends on your usage. but you can use custom settings anyways, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation

 

[rxrxrx]

Thanks for the tip, reinstalling with 10G root, 6G swap.

depends on your usage. but you can use custom settings anyways, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation

 

[Petrus4]

depends on your usage. but you can use custom settings anyways, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation

Tom can you clarify "depends on your usage" for the sizing of /dev/mapper/pve-root

I have a 500 GB drive and 95 GB is being used for the /dev/mapper/pve-root

I usually set the /dev/mapper/pve-root to 20 GB no matter what the size of the system, but never end up using more than 10 % of that.
In what scenarios would you want /dev/mapper/pve-root to be 95 GB or 19% of you total disk size? Why the 19% ?

Thanks!

 

[dietmar]

In what scenarios would you want /dev/mapper/pve-root to be 95 GB or 19% of you total disk size? Why the 19% ?

That is usually enough free space, even when you need to manipulate larger files (backups) on the root partition.