Graham Jenkins wrote: > I have a machine with four guests on it, and it seems to create and > leave lots of files with names like vmlinuz.LqKA3h and initrd.kolvQu in > directory /var/lib/xen. The remain there even when all guests are > gracefully shut down .. and additional ones get created when they are > next started. > > The end result, of course, is that the root file system fills up. So .. > how can I prevent this from happening? > > I've got SELinux disabled and I have Guest files in /XenGuests. I've > also set XENDOMAINS_SAVE="" in /etc/sysconfig/xendomains > > Any ideas? > Hi Graham, I don't know what those files are, however, this sort of behaviour by software is quiet common and it is probably for that reason that I always choose to have a separate /var. I think that most people try and setup at least a /boot, /var and even /tmp. It's like a 'defacto' minimum best practice if you like. As far as a solution goes, you could symlink /var/lib/xen to somewhere with free disk space or even or even make a new filesystem if you have some spare disk and plonk /var/lib/xen there. Cheers. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.