Afternoon I was looking for partitioning guidance on RKE2 and came across this issue: https://github.com/rancher/rke2/issues/2479 Looking at my own cluster I found the following areas to be larger: • /var/lib/kubelet ? ◦ Not sure what the growth potential is • /var/lib/rancher ! ◦ contianerd uses a sub folder as the root storage so container layers should be here • /var/run/k3s ? ◦ Not sure on growth rate • /var/run/containerd ? ◦ Not sure on growth rate • /var/log/pods ! ◦ pod logs • /var/log ! ◦ bane of my existence always seems to fill up 😄 • /run X - seems to be the tmpfs for containerd sockets as well as where the overlayFS is setup ◦ doesn't seem like I want to create a separate partition ▪︎ as this would take me off a RAM FS and put me onto spinners (sadly 😞 ) ? = should I partition ; ! = planning on partitioning ; X = don't plan on partitioning

If you looked at the mountpoint you’d see that /run is tmpfs and /var/run is a symlink to /run

Thank you totally missed that

There’s a lot going on in /var/lib/rancher - this is where your containers live while they run and until they are removed, also where (at least by default) etcd snapshots are stored, rke2 container images if you run an air-gapped install. In my case containers take up 90-98% of the space.

ok that's what my quick investigation looked like so def a good candidate to get it some extra space 👍

If it’s a VM it’s easy to add more later, but yeah always try to aim for something sensible to begin with 🙂

I'm leaving that as a headache for another day 😄 for now it's just looking at a decent initial baseline for some baremetal nodes

ah baremetal, yeah you’ll want to get it semi right from the start, unless you can easily add space 🙂

thankfully for me its like a proof of concept type of deal and I'll pass it off to the real experts 😛artyparrot:

In /var/lib/kubelet I see 1-2GB being used and it appears to be related to PVs which looks odd now that I’m diving into it