[09:39] why the heck would my volume be going thru the roof every time the screen comes out of dpms [14:59] I 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 partions [14:59] /dev/sda1 12G 9.2G 1.3G 89% / [14:59] /dev/sda6 454G 352G 102G 78% /var/lib [15:01] so 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 etc [15:03] interesting [15:04] /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] hipitihop [15:05] simplest way to fix it is prolly to go into single user mode, umount devsda6 and copy it over if you wanted to [15:05] /var/lib/mythtv is on a separate phsical drive for me [15:05] mycoDA, you mean chose the wrong option during install ? [15:06] in ur case is prolly to stop recordings filling the root drive [15:06] mycoDA, only have one hd on this box [15:06] yeah, but is a separate partition [15:07] perhaps, but on another channel, people said this is one of the silliest configs they have ever seen [15:07] like i said - is to stop recordings filling the root drive and killing the system [15:07] and now trying to run another service on the box, splunk and it wants 2gb space and says there is no room [15:08] someone suggested I mv /opt to sda6 and symlink [15:08] was about to say that lol [15:08] would eb a workaround [15:09] tho - try sudo apt-get clean [15:09] might free up some space [15:10] can't damage anything ? [15:10] lean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from [15:10] /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. When APT is used as a dselect(1) method, clean is run [15:10] 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] autoclean [15:10] Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes [15:10] package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long [15:10] period without it growing out of control. The configuration option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from [15:10] being erased if it is set to off. [15:12] k, done that, barely budged, now at 1.4gb [15:12] sudo apt-get autoremove [15:12] will remove orphaned packages [15:13] left behind after something else that required em is gone [15:13] also - could have a cleanout of /var/log [15:13] or move IT to sda6 even [15:13] so specifically for now, df -k /opt/splunk [15:14] gives .. /dev/sda1 11535344 9531852 1417524 88% / [15:15] doesnt tell you much lol [15:15] so 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 etc [15:15] sorry, opt/splunk is what is complaining about not enough space [15:16] gah [15:16] havent had to do this in donkeys [15:17] ok, 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 giants [15:17] i know what to do - go into single user mode [15:17] been donkeys since i did [15:18] /opt/splunk should be easy enuf tho [15:18] shouldnt need any stuffing around [15:18] mv /opt/splunk /var/lib/spluk [15:19] shouldn't I move all of opt ? [15:19] ln -s /var/lib/splunk /opt/splunk [15:19] up to you [15:19] would likely have to drop to single user mode so it isnt in use [15:19] not sure [15:19] although your suggestion will only effect splunk so safer I guess [15:20] was why i said it [15:20] so I can do the splunk mv without single user ? probably best to stop splunk though [15:20] tho there is nothing in my opt [15:20] yeah - stop splunk [15:21] good point, hold on I'll see what I have [15:21] is anything else in /opt ? [15:21] brb - smoke [15:26] bak [15:38] ok, on the splunk channel, considering this is a fresh unused splunk install, they siggested using the dpgg --instdir and install it into a proper place [15:38] s/dpgg/dpkg [15:39] fair one [15:39] purge it and install it again [15:39] so next question in ubuntu fs, where is the correct place to specify such stuff [15:39] /usr/share ? [15:40] wherever u like, but in ur case, prolly gonna be /usr/lib/splunk :P [15:40] oops, same partition [15:41] answer is in my original df -h [15:41] iow, sda6 is on /var/lib [15:42] am I correct ? [15:42] uhuh [15:42] lol - my memory sux [15:42] /var/lib/splunk [15:42] i knew something sounded wrong with what i said lol [15:49] np, thanks for trying to help mycoDA, I learnd something anyway .. now will see if indeed that's going to work [15:50] fingers crossed [15:50] hope it does it for you [15:53] hmm, sudo dpkg -i --instdir /var/lib splunk-4.2-96430-linux-2.6-amd64.deb claims "no such file or directory" [15:53] anyway, wrong channel now, totally ot [16:00] can someone point me to the guide for using external storage for videos on mythbuntu? [16:02] point mythvideo to its mount point via one of the storage groups [16:02] done [16:06] there isnt really support for metadata on removable storage yet tho jsheezy [16:07] oh i did not know that... that stinks! [16:08] there are scripts for it iirc [16:08] puts the metadata in files with the video (same dir) [16:08] retrieves it on reconnect [16:08] havent tried em [16:09] looks like i have some experimenting to do [16:09] lol yup [16:09] good luck [16:09] havent had much joy with automatic metadata population myself lol [16:41] do 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? [16:53] jsheezy, it should already do that? [16:54] so if i fdisk and see it as sdc1 is it always going to be that sdc1? [17:32] is there any reason I should not install syslog-ng [18:47] is this just a generic error? playCtx, Error: Attempting to setup a player, but it already exists. [18:48] this 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] grrr [18:52] Wonder if this has something to do with not using the device id [18:52] but rather using the ip address of the tuner... [19:43] superm1: hi! are you around to take a look at the patch at the end of bug 698007? [19:43] Bug 698007 in lirc (Ubuntu) "lirc init script can create circular symlinks" [Undecided, New] http://www.launchpad.net/bugs/698007 [19:44] superm1: it fixes both 698007 and bug 697999 [19:44] Bug 697999 in lirc (Ubuntu) "lirc init script seems to load things backwards" [Undecided, New] http://www.launchpad.net/bugs/697999 === croppa is now known as croppa_