[tech] Re: [ucc-announce] (Downtime) Sunday
John West McKenna
john at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon May 8 12:43:31 WST 2000
Duncan Sargeant writes:
>Can someone remind me why we need 4G for /services?
It does seem a little excessive, doesn't it? Let's see what we've got...
hmm. It isn't taking up a lot of space, but /services/lost+found doesn't
look right. ../tftpboot/tftpboot/tftpboot/tftpboot... over 20 deep.
http-old is pretty huge. Do we really need it? We seem to have an ancient
copy of flame there too. I know that one isn't being used. I suspect it
was left there when it was discovered that MudOS wasn't happing about
running over NFS.
Killing one of the redhat images would do the greatest good. I can't be
bothered looking through the rest - it's lots of little things, and they
mostly seem reasonable.
I'm calling 10 meg directories 'little'. Someone shoot me.
Some curiosities:
mussel has a 4G drive for /. It is 97% full. I was always taught that
this sort of behavious is wrong.
mussel is not services, and yet it has a local drive mounted on
/usr/local/ftp/pub/mirrors. A 2G drive, no less.
mussel again - is /space some extra room for people who's home directories
won't fit on /home? Because there's ALL of /home's increase from 6G to 9G.
I'm sure we can do much better with the drives we've got. For example:
We've got a lot of x86 Linux machines. They've all got their own private
copies of /usr. Isn't this the sort of thing /services is for? Give each
machine a small drive to boot from, and mount everything that is shared from
the shared NFS server. Just a thought.
John West
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