[ec2-beta] Understanding Disk/Partitions Distribution in ami-18d73071

[Luis Ibanez]

First of all,
Thanks a lot for making these Ubuntu image available.

This is great !.


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Background:

I'm using the ami-18d73071 in oder to setup a machine
for testing Nightly builds of one of our open source
packages (www.itk.org).

My first try was to download the source code to the
"/home/ubuntu" directory, and to try to build it right
there.

However, it turned out that the size of the "/" directory
is rather small.

Here is what I see with "df"

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              1548144    839580    629924  58% /
tmpfs                  3681752         0   3681752   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun                 3681752        68   3681684   1% /var/run
varlock                3681752         0   3681752   0% /var/lock
udev                   3681752      2516   3679236   1% /dev
tmpfs                  3681752         0   3681752   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb             433455904    840800 410596800   1% /mnt

so the "/" partition was full before finishing
building half of the package.


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My question is then:

    What will be the recommended location in the file system
    of the instance where I could put a source+binary tree
    that may reach the 3 to 4 Gigabytes ?


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Should I think that these files should rather go into a storage
bucket and that I should mounted and unmounted every time that
I launch the instance ?



   Thanks for any advice,


      Luis