NetSUS Reposado Disk Size

[thegooch49]

Hi all, I'm trying the NetSUS appliance to setup an update server. The appliance comes w/ a vmdk that is 100GB, which fills up before the sync completes. I have modified the preferences.plist file to only fetch lion updates to reduce the download size. Unfortunately this still fills the disk before it can complete. Are you all creating new, bigger disks and cloning the appliance .vmdk to it?

[ernstcs]

Not only do you need to tell the VM server you want a 200GB disk per say you then need to SSH into the server itself and then use a variety of commands to tell the server that it has more disk. I apologize, but I don't have the steps or at least where I'd be comfortable giving them as correct. I'm sure there are documents out there about extending a volume for Ubuntu out there.

Basically involved the fdisk, pvcreate, vgextend, vgdisplay, lvextend, and resize2fs.

Realistically, the default size of the OVA file is ludicrous and should be at least 200GB, and a KB provided on how to extend when needed properly.

If I get more time I'll see what else I can provide. You can also ping support and see if they'd be willing to help. It's not an official product soo....

[thegooch49]

Thanks for the info......this is the route I went as well. I created another vmdk for the utility, and used the LVM commands and resize2fs to extend the filesize on root. I just wanted to ensure that I wasn't missing something. It seems that if one intends to serve the packages as well as the catalogs for Lion or ML, the appliance won't work out of the box.

[jarednichols]

Instead of messing with disk sizing, you could also just assign another virtual disk of the size you need to the VM and mount it at /srv/SUS.