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mycoDAwhy the heck would my volume be going thru the roof every time the screen comes out of dpms09:39
hipitihopI installed from a 9.x livecd to a fresh machine a couple of years back, didn't realy pay attention to how fs was setup, only to find I apparently have a very odd set of partions14:59
hipitihop /dev/sda1              12G  9.2G  1.3G  89% /14:59
hipitihop /dev/sda6             454G  352G  102G  78% /var/lib14:59
hipitihopso two questions, a) why such an odd setup, and b) how can I fix this now that I have a number of services running on this box, myth, asterisk, ossec etc15:01
mycoDAinteresting15:03
mycoDA/var/lib/mythtv is where all your recordings and videos etc are, would be why it is separate, maybe there was an accident setting it up?15:04
mycoDAhipitihop15:04
mycoDAsimplest way to fix it is prolly to go into single user mode, umount devsda6 and copy it over if you wanted to15:05
mycoDA/var/lib/mythtv is on a separate phsical drive for me15:05
hipitihopmycoDA, you mean chose the wrong option during install ?15:05
mycoDAin ur case is prolly to stop recordings filling the root drive15:06
hipitihopmycoDA, only have one hd on this box15:06
mycoDAyeah, but is a separate partition15:06
hipitihopperhaps, but on another channel, people said this is one of the silliest configs they have ever seen15:07
mycoDAlike i said - is to stop recordings filling the root drive and killing the system15:07
hipitihopand now trying to run another service on the box, splunk and it wants 2gb space and says there is no room15:07
hipitihopsomeone suggested I mv /opt to sda6 and symlink15:08
mycoDAwas about to say that lol15:08
mycoDAwould eb a workaround15:08
mycoDAtho - try sudo apt-get clean15:09
mycoDAmight free up some space15:09
hipitihopcan't damage anything ?15:10
mycoDAlean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from15:10
mycoDA           /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. When APT is used as a dselect(1) method, clean is run15:10
mycoDA           automatically. Those who do not use dselect will likely want to run apt-get clean from time to time to free up disk space.15:10
mycoDAautoclean15:10
mycoDA           Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes15:10
mycoDA           package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long15:10
mycoDA           period without it growing out of control. The configuration option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from15:10
mycoDA           being erased if it is set to off.15:10
hipitihopk, done that, barely budged, now at 1.4gb15:12
mycoDAsudo apt-get autoremove15:12
mycoDAwill remove orphaned packages15:12
mycoDAleft behind after something else that required em is gone15:13
mycoDAalso - could have a cleanout of /var/log15:13
mycoDAor move IT to sda6 even15:13
hipitihopso specifically for now, df -k /opt/splunk15:13
hipitihopgives .. /dev/sda1             11535344   9531852   1417524  88% /15:14
mycoDAdoesnt tell you much lol15:15
hipitihopso can you step me through moving /opt to sda 6 without destroying the system ? I have at least 3 services running on this, one being myth other asterisk etc15:15
hipitihopsorry, opt/splunk is what is complaining about not enough space15:15
mycoDAgah15:16
mycoDAhavent had to do this in donkeys15:16
hipitihopok, if you don't feel comfortable that's fine... I don't either, still a little green around the gills when it comes to the Linux fs, so prefer to stand on teh shoulders of giants15:17
mycoDAi know what to do - go into single user mode15:17
mycoDAbeen donkeys since i did15:17
mycoDA/opt/splunk should be easy enuf tho15:18
mycoDAshouldnt need any stuffing around15:18
mycoDAmv /opt/splunk /var/lib/spluk15:18
hipitihopshouldn't I move all of opt ?15:19
mycoDAln -s /var/lib/splunk /opt/splunk15:19
mycoDAup to you15:19
mycoDAwould likely have to drop to single user mode so it isnt in use15:19
mycoDAnot sure15:19
hipitihopalthough your suggestion will only effect splunk so safer I guess15:19
mycoDAwas why i said it15:20
hipitihopso I can do the splunk mv without single user ? probably best to stop splunk though15:20
mycoDAtho there is nothing in my opt15:20
mycoDAyeah - stop splunk15:20
hipitihopgood point, hold on I'll see what I have15:21
mycoDAis anything else in /opt ?15:21
mycoDAbrb - smoke15:21
mycoDAbak15:26
hipitihopok, on the splunk channel, considering this is a fresh unused splunk install, they siggested using the dpgg --instdir and install it into a proper place15:38
hipitihops/dpgg/dpkg15:38
mycoDAfair one15:39
mycoDApurge it and install it again15:39
hipitihopso next question in ubuntu fs, where is the correct place to specify such stuff15:39
hipitihop/usr/share ?15:39
mycoDAwherever u like, but in ur case, prolly gonna be /usr/lib/splunk :P15:40
hipitihopoops, same partition15:40
hipitihopanswer is in my original df -h15:41
hipitihopiow, sda6 is on /var/lib15:41
hipitihopam I correct ?15:42
mycoDAuhuh15:42
mycoDAlol - my memory sux15:42
mycoDA/var/lib/splunk15:42
mycoDAi knew something sounded wrong with what i said lol15:42
hipitihopnp, thanks for trying to help mycoDA, I learnd something anyway .. now will see if indeed that's going to work15:49
mycoDAfingers crossed15:50
mycoDAhope it does it for you15:50
hipitihophmm, sudo dpkg -i --instdir /var/lib splunk-4.2-96430-linux-2.6-amd64.deb claims "no such file or directory"15:53
hipitihopanyway, wrong channel now, totally ot15:53
jsheezycan someone point me to the guide for using external storage for videos on mythbuntu?16:00
mycoDApoint mythvideo to its mount point via one of the storage groups16:02
mycoDAdone16:02
mycoDAthere isnt really support for metadata on removable storage yet tho jsheezy16:06
jsheezyoh i did not know that... that stinks!16:07
mycoDAthere are scripts for it iirc16:08
mycoDAputs the metadata in files with the video (same dir)16:08
mycoDAretrieves it on reconnect16:08
mycoDAhavent tried em16:08
jsheezylooks like i have some experimenting to do16:09
mycoDAlol yup16:09
mycoDAgood luck16:09
mycoDAhavent had much joy with automatic metadata population myself lol16:09
jsheezydo you know of a way to make an external usb drive static? meaning if I unplug it and plug it back in it remains the same device?16:41
tgm4883jsheezy, it should already do that?16:53
jsheezyso if i fdisk and see it as sdc1 is it always going to be that sdc1?16:54
hipitihopis there any reason I should not install syslog-ng17:32
dewmanis this just a generic error? playCtx, Error: Attempting to setup a player, but it already exists.18:47
dewmanthis occurs when watching live tv. I dropped all the tuners,sources, added hdhr tuner, did a scan, watched live tv, went to try to tune audio channels, then went back to live tv and now I get this.18:48
dewmangrrr18:48
dewmanWonder if this has something to do with not using the device id18:52
dewmanbut rather using the ip address of the tuner...18:52
keessuperm1: hi! are you around to take a look at the patch at the end of bug 698007?19:43
ZinnBug 698007 in lirc (Ubuntu) "lirc init script can create circular symlinks" [Undecided, New] http://www.launchpad.net/bugs/69800719:43
keessuperm1: it fixes both 698007 and bug 69799919:44
ZinnBug 697999 in lirc (Ubuntu) "lirc init script seems to load things backwards" [Undecided, New] http://www.launchpad.net/bugs/69799919:44
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