<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Verdana;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Andalus;
panose-1:2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Steve Powell asked for my system particulars. This is a standalone system (Dell 1950) with 16 GB RAM.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Redhat Release:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Linux Kernel:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Linux 2.6.18-308.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 17:17:51 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Disk space:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-root 992M 248M 694M 27% /<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-opt 60G 805M 56G 2% /opt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-usr 4.9G 1.3G 3.4G 27% /usr<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-tmp 2.0G 68M 1.8G 4% /tmp<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-var 3.9G 254M 3.5G 7% /var<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-vtmp 992M 34M 908M 4% /var/tmp<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-crash<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> 20G 173M 19G 1% /var/crash<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-log 5.9G 152M 5.4G 3% /var/log<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-audit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> 2.0G 75M 1.8G 4% /var/log/audit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/mapper/Sys-home 4.9G 139M 4.5G 3% /home<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/dev/sda1 487M 9.4M 452M 3% /boot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since the assumption for the issue is that there is not enough disk space for RabbitMQ, or rather, that RabbitMQ requires 16GB of free disk space. Obviously, it would be best if we could use a directory under /opt for disk space. Looks like I do this with<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#555555;background:white'> </span>the environment variable<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#555555;background:white'> <b>RABBITMQ_MNESIA_BASE</b>?</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll reinstall and try that. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>FWIW, I think the install docs should mention this issue, the above disk layout is pretty standard in our shop (we generally install application stuff in /opt). But the main install page does not mention the default directories where stuff goes, nor how to change where you install or keep files. In fact, to find the above environment variable I had to look at the man pages… seems to me newbies should know this stuff first.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#002060'>Steve Keller<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#595959'>Systems Architect, Monitoring | Email: <a href="mailto:skeller@ea.com"><span style='color:#595959'>skeller@ea.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>