[ec2] partition thinking

[Peter Wolanin]

There is a another instance storage device on every m1.large that's
not mounted by default that has your other "missing" space.

-Peter

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Micah Walter<micahpix at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I'm sort of curious about the thinking behind the partition structure for these AMIs. Is there are strong reason for creating a 10 gig partition for the system and then leaving the rest to /mnt?
>
> I'm still a little new to Ubuntu, so maybe this is the industry standard.... but I would really like to hear what others thought.
>
> Also, I noticed on some of the Alestic images, that when starting a large instance I only have about half of the "advertised" disk space. According to the AWS docs for a m1.large I should have had 850 gig, but I only had about 450 when doing a df -h.
>
> -micah
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