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Sarg0n
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Partition Issue

Post by Sarg0n » 2017/12/14 15:36:48

Hi, I apologize up front if this question seems ridiculous or has been answered in the past, but please forgive my ignorance since I am fairly new to building and compilation. I am using CentOS 7.1708 and utilizing VMware VCenter to create a VM for a new build. I am provisioning 30 GB for the hard drive with 8 GB memory. I am simply adding the "Server with GUI" and no special packages upon initial OS build. When I partition the directories, I manually partion and divide them like so:

/tmp
/var
/var/tmp
/var/log/audit
/var/log
/boot
swap
/
/home

The partition sizes equate to 30GB, but when the image is created, the /dev, /dev/shm, /run, sys/fs/cgroup, and other /run directories are created, and increase the size to 46G:
Image

Is there any way I can configure the OS to utilize the provisioned space instead of adding additional space? I need the total size of the build to be around 30GB with no increased size.

Thanks for any assistance.
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Re: Partition Issue

Post by TrevorH » 2017/12/14 16:03:36

Those are all tmpfs filesystems which are RAM and swap backed (and lose all content on reboot). They don't take up real disk space.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Sarg0n
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Re: Partition Issue

Post by Sarg0n » 2017/12/14 16:32:24

I am so sorry. I was totally confused...thank you for the clarification.

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