Korora Custom Partitioning - KVM

Alex Sage

I am installing Korora on a small 120GB SSD drive.

It's a SFF PC, so adding another drive for data isn't an isn't an option... unless I use an external drive...

This system will be a KVM Host, so whats the best way to setup the partitioning?

50GBfor root seems like a lot... and doesn't leave much space for VM's etc.

Also, Where should I store the VM's? I know some people create /data, and store them there?

Disk /dev/sda: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xfc93f734

Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *       2048   2099199   2097152     1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       2099200 234440703 232341504 110.8G 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/korora-root: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/korora-swap: 7.8 GiB, 8325693440 bytes, 16261120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/korora-home: 53 GiB, 56941871104 bytes, 111214592 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

travisdh1

I generally keep the drive images in /var/lib/libvirt/images as that's the default.

If you're going without a gui (why would you want one with that little space anyway!). You can make the root partition tiny. I'd got for ~10GB, but 4GB is perfectly feasible for a minimal+KVM.

scottalanmiller

I'd not partition at all at that size. Keep everything in root.

black3dynamite

@aaronstuder said in Korora Custom Partitioning - KVM:

I am installing Korora on a small 120GB SSD drive.

It's a SFF PC, so adding another drive for data isn't an isn't an option... unless I use an external drive...

This system will be a KVM Host, so whats the best way to setup the partitioning?

50GBfor root seems like a lot... and doesn't leave much space for VM's etc.

Also, Where should I store the VM's? I know some people create /data, and store them there?

Disk /dev/sda: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xfc93f734

Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *       2048   2099199   2097152     1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       2099200 234440703 232341504 110.8G 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/korora-root: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/korora-swap: 7.8 GiB, 8325693440 bytes, 16261120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/korora-home: 53 GiB, 56941871104 bytes, 111214592 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

For a drive that small, shrink the root partition to 20 GiB or less, give the swap partition 4 GiB and the rest to home partition. Or just have root and swap partition only.

VM in user session, the default location is
/home/username/.local/share/libvirt/images

VM in system session, the default location is
/var/lib/libvirt/images