[09:39] <mycoDA> why the heck would my volume be going thru the roof every time the screen comes out of dpms
[14:59] <hipitihop> 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] <hipitihop>  /dev/sda1              12G  9.2G  1.3G  89% /
[14:59] <hipitihop>  /dev/sda6             454G  352G  102G  78% /var/lib
[15:01] <hipitihop> 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] <mycoDA> interesting
[15:04] <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] <mycoDA> hipitihop
[15:05] <mycoDA> 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] <mycoDA> /var/lib/mythtv is on a separate phsical drive for me
[15:05] <hipitihop> mycoDA, you mean chose the wrong option during install ?
[15:06] <mycoDA> in ur case is prolly to stop recordings filling the root drive
[15:06] <hipitihop> mycoDA, only have one hd on this box
[15:06] <mycoDA> yeah, but is a separate partition
[15:07] <hipitihop> perhaps, but on another channel, people said this is one of the silliest configs they have ever seen
[15:07] <mycoDA> like i said - is to stop recordings filling the root drive and killing the system
[15:07] <hipitihop> and now trying to run another service on the box, splunk and it wants 2gb space and says there is no room
[15:08] <hipitihop> someone suggested I mv /opt to sda6 and symlink
[15:08] <mycoDA> was about to say that lol
[15:08] <mycoDA> would eb a workaround
[15:09] <mycoDA> tho - try sudo apt-get clean
[15:09] <mycoDA> might free up some space
[15:10] <hipitihop> can't damage anything ?
[15:10] <mycoDA> lean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from
[15:10] <mycoDA>            /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. When APT is used as a dselect(1) method, clean is run
[15:10] <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] <mycoDA> autoclean
[15:10] <mycoDA>            Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes
[15:10] <mycoDA>            package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long
[15:10] <mycoDA>            period without it growing out of control. The configuration option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from
[15:10] <mycoDA>            being erased if it is set to off.
[15:12] <hipitihop> k, done that, barely budged, now at 1.4gb
[15:12] <mycoDA> sudo apt-get autoremove
[15:12] <mycoDA> will remove orphaned packages
[15:13] <mycoDA> left behind after something else that required em is gone
[15:13] <mycoDA> also - could have a cleanout of /var/log
[15:13] <mycoDA> or move IT to sda6 even
[15:13] <hipitihop> so specifically for now, df -k /opt/splunk
[15:14] <hipitihop> gives .. /dev/sda1             11535344   9531852   1417524  88% /
[15:15] <mycoDA> doesnt tell you much lol
[15:15] <hipitihop> 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] <hipitihop> sorry, opt/splunk is what is complaining about not enough space
[15:16] <mycoDA> gah
[15:16] <mycoDA> havent had to do this in donkeys
[15:17] <hipitihop> 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] <mycoDA> i know what to do - go into single user mode
[15:17] <mycoDA> been donkeys since i did
[15:18] <mycoDA> /opt/splunk should be easy enuf tho
[15:18] <mycoDA> shouldnt need any stuffing around
[15:18] <mycoDA> mv /opt/splunk /var/lib/spluk
[15:19] <hipitihop> shouldn't I move all of opt ?
[15:19] <mycoDA> ln -s /var/lib/splunk /opt/splunk
[15:19] <mycoDA> up to you
[15:19] <mycoDA> would likely have to drop to single user mode so it isnt in use
[15:19] <mycoDA> not sure
[15:19] <hipitihop> although your suggestion will only effect splunk so safer I guess
[15:20] <mycoDA> was why i said it
[15:20] <hipitihop> so I can do the splunk mv without single user ? probably best to stop splunk though
[15:20] <mycoDA> tho there is nothing in my opt
[15:20] <mycoDA> yeah - stop splunk
[15:21] <hipitihop> good point, hold on I'll see what I have
[15:21] <mycoDA> is anything else in /opt ?
[15:21] <mycoDA> brb - smoke
[15:26] <mycoDA> bak
[15:38] <hipitihop> 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] <hipitihop> s/dpgg/dpkg
[15:39] <mycoDA> fair one
[15:39] <mycoDA> purge it and install it again
[15:39] <hipitihop> so next question in ubuntu fs, where is the correct place to specify such stuff
[15:39] <hipitihop> /usr/share ?
[15:40] <mycoDA> wherever u like, but in ur case, prolly gonna be /usr/lib/splunk :P
[15:40] <hipitihop> oops, same partition
[15:41] <hipitihop> answer is in my original df -h
[15:41] <hipitihop> iow, sda6 is on /var/lib
[15:42] <hipitihop> am I correct ?
[15:42] <mycoDA> uhuh
[15:42] <mycoDA> lol - my memory sux
[15:42] <mycoDA> /var/lib/splunk
[15:42] <mycoDA> i knew something sounded wrong with what i said lol
[15:49] <hipitihop> np, thanks for trying to help mycoDA, I learnd something anyway .. now will see if indeed that's going to work
[15:50] <mycoDA> fingers crossed
[15:50] <mycoDA> hope it does it for you
[15:53] <hipitihop> hmm, sudo dpkg -i --instdir /var/lib splunk-4.2-96430-linux-2.6-amd64.deb claims "no such file or directory"
[15:53] <hipitihop> anyway, wrong channel now, totally ot
[16:00] <jsheezy> can someone point me to the guide for using external storage for videos on mythbuntu?
[16:02] <mycoDA> point mythvideo to its mount point via one of the storage groups
[16:02] <mycoDA> done
[16:06] <mycoDA> there isnt really support for metadata on removable storage yet tho jsheezy
[16:07] <jsheezy> oh i did not know that... that stinks!
[16:08] <mycoDA> there are scripts for it iirc
[16:08] <mycoDA> puts the metadata in files with the video (same dir)
[16:08] <mycoDA> retrieves it on reconnect
[16:08] <mycoDA> havent tried em
[16:09] <jsheezy> looks like i have some experimenting to do
[16:09] <mycoDA> lol yup
[16:09] <mycoDA> good luck
[16:09] <mycoDA> havent had much joy with automatic metadata population myself lol
[16:41] <jsheezy> 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] <tgm4883> jsheezy, it should already do that?
[16:54] <jsheezy> so if i fdisk and see it as sdc1 is it always going to be that sdc1?
[17:32] <hipitihop> is there any reason I should not install syslog-ng
[18:47] <dewman> is this just a generic error? playCtx, Error: Attempting to setup a player, but it already exists.
[18:48] <dewman> 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] <dewman> grrr
[18:52] <dewman> Wonder if this has something to do with not using the device id
[18:52] <dewman> but rather using the ip address of the tuner...
[19:43] <kees> superm1: hi! are you around to take a look at the patch at the end of bug 698007?
[19:43] <Zinn> Bug 698007 in lirc (Ubuntu) "lirc init script can create circular symlinks" [Undecided, New] http://www.launchpad.net/bugs/698007
[19:44] <kees> superm1: it fixes both 698007 and bug 697999
[19:44] <Zinn> Bug 697999 in lirc (Ubuntu) "lirc init script seems to load things backwards" [Undecided, New] http://www.launchpad.net/bugs/697999