[Labs-l] Please delete any unused instances you have sitting around

[Petr Bena]

which reminds me, what about using some filesystem (on virt) which
supports compression? big chunks of virtual hdds are easy to compress
and that could save a lot of space as well, but it could hurt
performance a bit...

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe there are lots of instances that haven't been touched for
> months. If you hibernate them and compress their storages, you could
> probably save a lot of space and no one would mind... and if they
> needed them again you could just recover them :P
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Though it isn't currently critical, we're getting low on local-storage
>> across the virtualization cluster. This is the space used by /mnt and / on
>> instances. If you have unused instances, please delete them to free up some
>> disk space.
>>
>> In general it's nice to occasionally clean-up anything you have that isn't
>> being used, so that resources will be available for folks that need them.
>>
>> - Ryan
>>
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