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| -rw-r--r-- | sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod | 8 |
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diff --git a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod index 275faf5a..14f7eecb 100644 --- a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod +++ b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod @@ -271,6 +271,14 @@ to point to another directory that has enough space. This defaults to C</tmp>. +Note that if C<$TMPDIR> is a tmpfs (eg. if C</tmp> is on tmpfs, or if +you use C<TMPDIR=/dev/shm>), tmpfs defaults to a maximum size of +I<half> of physical RAM. If virt-sparsify exceeds this, it will hang. +The solution is either to use a real disk, or to increase the maximum +size of the tmpfs mountpoint, eg: + + mount -o remount,size=10G /tmp + =back For other environment variables, see L<guestfs(3)/ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES>. |