[Netkit.users] Enormous disk usage on Fedora Core 4

[Massimo Rimondini]

Hello Enrico,

sorry, I seem to have misinterpreted the report. I was assuming that was 
the real disk space consumption. Anyway, there's still something that 
suggests me that this is actually the case. Consider again the output 
provided by Antony:

[ice a vega netkit-lab_bgp-1-simple-peering]$ ls -lh
totale 1,2G
-rwxr-xr-x  1 ice ice  633 30 set 17:02 changes
-rwxr-xr-x  1 ice ice  230 30 set 17:44 lab.conf
drwxr-xr-x  3 ice ice 8,0K 23 apr  2005 router1
-rwxr-xr-x  1 ice ice 602M 25 ott 18:23 router1.disk
-rwxr-xr-x  1 ice ice   98 25 ott 18:23 router1.log
-rwxr-xr-x  1 ice ice   99 23 apr  2005 router1.startup
drwxr-xr-x  3 ice ice 8,0K 23 apr  2005 router2
-rwxr-xr-x  1 ice ice 602M 25 ott 18:23 router2.disk
-rwxr-xr-x  1 ice ice  170 25 ott 18:23 router2.log
-rwxr-xr-x  1 ice ice   97 23 apr  2005 router2.startup

The line "totale 1,2G" seems to support my hypothesis. If you perform 
the same "ls -lh" while using a guaranteed-to-work Netkit installation 
you get much smaller summary sizes.
This clue, together with the startup time, makes me think that the 
slowdown is actually due to intense disk activity.

I let Antony pronounce the last word about that...

Regards,
Massimo.


Enrico Gasperoni wrote:
> I don't think that the size of the disk files is the
> problem, in fact on every machine I ever used netkit I
> always had disk files that large and it did never
> hurt.
> 
> Moreover the disk files are "sparse" (beacuse they
> contain only part of the filesystem which itself
> contains a lot of free space) so ls -l will tell you
> they are very big while they are in reality much
> smaller. As an evidence of this try a "df -k" before
> and after creating a new machine and see what's the
> real space the .disk occupies. The apparent size of
> about 600MB is absolutely normal, considering it's the
> size of virtual disk partition (you can check with
> cfdisk /dev/ubd/0 in any virtual machine)
> 
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