From 5225ada5e7af57acb6ad1ddac7274b276c86d99e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:52:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] v2v: Document minimum free filesystem space requirements.
(cherry picked from commit 5de06a3571d20d0fd483d26099cc49bc0f08ecf0)
---
v2v/virt-v2v.pod | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
index bebe105..edfa5a0 100644
--- a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
+++ b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
@@ -1085,6 +1085,30 @@ same as the initial installation procedure. It is not necessary to
remove the recovery console first. Following re-installation, the
recovery console will work as intended.
+=head1 FREE SPACE FOR CONVERSION
+
+Virt-v2v checks there is sufficient free space in the guest filesystem
+to perform the conversion. Currently it checks:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Root filesystem or C<C:\>
+
+Minimum free space: 20 MB
+
+=item C</boot>
+
+Minimum free space: 50 MB
+
+This is because we need to build a new initramfs for some Enterprise
+Linux conversions.
+
+=item Any other mountable filesystem
+
+Minimum free space: 10 MB
+
+=back
+
=head1 RUNNING VIRT-V2V AS ROOT OR NON-ROOT
Nothing in virt-v2v inherently needs root access, and it will run just
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1.8.3.1