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I want to create an Oracle Cloud Compute Instance that uses less than 50 GB of space. I only need about 10 GB.

Most information I'm finding on the Internet states that the boot volume on OCI can not be less than 50 GB.

However, https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/oracle-cloud-block-storage-size-question/9614/7 says:

In OCI, the boot volume size is goverend by the source image you use. If you use an Oracle-provided image, they are all smaller than 50 GB for historical reasons (until a recent OCI update, boot columes could not exceed 50 GB in size.

I checked the Debian image I'm using and from what I understand, it says it needs at least 2 GB only:

# wget https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/cloud/bookworm/latest/debian-12-generic-arm64.qcow2 # qemu-img info debian-12-generic-arm64.qcow2 image: debian-12-generic-arm64.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 2.0G (2147483648 bytes) disk size: 409M cluster_size: 65536 Format specific information: compat: 1.1 lazy refcounts: false refcount bits: 16 corrupt: false

Still, OCI creates 50 GB boot volumes. Is there any way to instruct the system to create a 10 GB boot volume?

(As a side note, my own instances are 47 GB if I don't change the devault volume size suggested when I create them. So it is possible to have a boot volume less than 50 GB?)

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    I tried to pick the right SE website to post this question. Stackoverflow has the most eyeballs but I think won't accept a question not about programming. Serverfault seems not a good match either. So I ended up here. If there's a better place, please let me know Commented Oct 26, 2024 at 6:53
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    Hi Menov, I think this would be a question for Oracle support? Commented Oct 26, 2024 at 7:25
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    I’m voting to close this question because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Unix or Linux. If not SO or SF, then Super User might work, but cloud computing in general seems to be on-topic on SF: meta.serverfault.com/questions/7907/… Commented Oct 26, 2024 at 8:42

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