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

[Rodney T. Quillo]

Hi Luis,

I would recommend attaching EBS volume to a running instance mount it to a 
separate directory. 

Rodney


On Sunday 01 March 2009 07:58:51 Luis Ibanez wrote:
> First of all,
> Thanks a lot for making these Ubuntu image available.
>
> This is great !.
>
>
> --
>
> 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.
>
>
> ---
>
> 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 ?
>
>
> ---
>
> 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