Re: [Qemu-devel] vm-tests images disks filling up?

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:26:39AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I just ran into a build failure using the tests/vm/ BSD build tests,
> because the NetBSD build image's disk filled up.
> 
> Looking more closely there seemed to be 9 stale build trees in
> the VM's /var/tmp/qemu-test.* , which is why the disk was full
> (they'd used up about 18GB between them).
> 
> The other VMs (freebsd, openbsd) also had the same problem of
> /var/tmp gradually filling with stale trees, they just hadn't
> quite run out of space yet...
> 
> What's the process for managing the disk space on these images?
> How are stale or completed build trees deleted ?

I'd prefer to see the test process honouring the build directory instead
of putting stuff in /var/tmp, so that a developer's normal approach to
cleaning up build artifacts works.

Regards,
Daniel
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