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drjenk
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 5:42 pm |
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Hi, I just did a fresh install of this distro a couple days ago, I went with the default partition options. I believe I recall 3gb for root partition. I just noticed during video playback a warning flash on the screen that the root partition is 90% full. I haven't downloaded any themes yet, haven't done much really except for fuss with a sound issue for a while, and schedule some recordings (football games etc.). Is there anything that might take up more space over time, perhaps logs, that I need to disable or manually purge now and then? Or should I perhaps re-install with a larger root partition, say 5-10gb?
Thanks David J.
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cesman
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 6:44 pm |
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By default, we use a 5 gig /. Over time, /home/mythtv will start to consume more space. You can more /home/mythtv to /myth and symlink it. jams has made accommodations for this in R8 with a new filesystem layout.
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drjenk
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:36 pm |
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Hi, I went ahead and did this, stopped the backend first. I did a mv /home/mythtv/* /myth. Managed to create the symlink by doing:
ln -s /myth /home/mythtv
got a "myth" link under /home/mythtv that pointed to -> /myth. So I moved /home/mythtv to /home/mythtv.bak, and renamed the "myth" symlink to mythtv in /home, so that I have:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 31 18:41 mythtv -> /myth
Does that look right? Restarted the backend/fronted, I apparently missed some files in the move because my theme, and some settings were back to default, and I actually can't change the theme. Are there some permissions I need to change as well? Thanks.
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graysky
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:02 am |
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You probably want to isolate the home dir on the /myth partition rather than dumping to the top level as I believe you did... in other words: Code: # mv /home/mythtv /myth/mythtv-homedir # ln -s /myth/mythtv-homedir /home/mythtv I'm guessing that you left behind all your .files and .dirs in the original /home/mythtv since you moved it via the command you posted and not the one I did We might be putting the cart before the horse... before you move the homedir, you should verify where exactly the bloat is occurring; it could be /var/log for example. 1) Restore the original /home/mythtv by manually moving the files back to /home/mythtv from /myth 2) Post the output of: sudo du -hd 1 /
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drjenk
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:43 pm |
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Ya that is what I did . I'm not sure what content belongs under /myth originally, other than the "tv" directory, to know what to move back. I can guess at most of it though. The ls output is: Code: drwxrwxrwx 24 mythtv mythtv 4096 Jan 1 09:04 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 29 04:49 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 31957 Jan 1 09:04 appletrailer.xml drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 19 Dec 22 2011 archive drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 19 Dec 22 2011 backup -rw------- 1 mythtv mythtv 72 Dec 29 08:59 .bash_history -rwxr-xr-x 1 mythtv mythtv 16 Dec 25 2010 .bash_profile -rwxr-xr-x 1 mythtv mythtv 48 Dec 25 2010 .bashrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 27 Dec 31 18:42 .config drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 153 Dec 31 22:02 .fluxbox drwxrwxrwx 3 mythtv mythtv 37 Dec 31 20:09 gallery drwxrwxrwx 9 mythtv mythtv 105 Dec 22 2011 games drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 19 Dec 22 2011 image_cache drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv http 54 Dec 29 04:50 ipodfeed lrwxrwxrwx 1 mythtv mythtv 16 Dec 29 04:52 .keylaunchrc -> /etc/keylaunchrc lrwxrwxrwx 1 mythtv mythtv 11 Dec 29 04:49 .lircrc -> /etc/lircrc drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 19 Dec 22 2011 motion drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 19 Dec 22 2011 music drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 6 Aug 9 00:42 mythexport drwxr-xr-x 12 mythtv mythtv 4096 Jan 1 08:30 .mythtv drwx------ 3 mythtv mythtv 20 Dec 31 13:00 .nv drwxrwxrwx 4 mythtv mythtv 48 Dec 22 2011 phone drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 88 Jan 1 18:30 pretty drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 19 Dec 22 2011 stream drwxrwxrwx 3 mythtv mythtv 4096 Dec 31 12:32 system_backups drwxr-xr-x 3 mythtv mythtv 33 Dec 29 04:52 .tilda drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 19 Dec 22 2011 tmp drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv 83 Jan 1 00:58 tv drwxrwxrwx 4 mythtv mythtv 47 Dec 22 2011 video drwxrwxrwx 7 mythtv mythtv 81 Dec 22 2011 video_stuff -rw------- 1 mythtv mythtv 108 Dec 29 05:00 .Xauthority -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 17 Dec 29 05:14 .Xdefaults -rwxr-xr-x 1 mythtv mythtv 271 Dec 25 2010 .xinitrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7510 Dec 31 12:55 .xscreensaver -rwxr-xr-x 1 mythtv mythtv 100 Dec 25 2010 .xsession
Of course all of the hidden directories I imagine are home directory specific. Is "tv" the only directory or file that belongs under /myth? Thanks
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graysky
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:52 pm |
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No, there is more that belongs under /myth I haven't run LH in a while but from memory, gallery, games, image_cache, ipodfeed, motion, music, phone, pretty, video, mythexport, streams
You didn't post the output of the du command to diagnose your thread title's problem...
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drjenk
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:02 pm |
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Here is that output: Code: 722G /mnt 3.3M /tmp 107G /data 192K /run 1.7G /usr 4.0K /service 119M /lib 0 /sys 6.1G /myth 8.7M /etc 4.2M /bin 188M /home 188M /var 0 /dev 16K /lost+found 12K /media 560K /opt 5.8M /root 23M /boot du: cannot access `/proc/1803/task/1803/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/1803/task/1803/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/1803/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/1803/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory 0 /proc 16K /srv 16M /sbin 836G /
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graysky
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:09 pm |
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Guess I don't see why your / partition is 90 % full.... if you moved your /home/mythtv back to it then you're total root usage shouldn't be near 90 % of 5 G. Ballparking it, you have 2,260 MB of 5,000 MB used: drjenk wrote: Code: 3.3M /tmp 192K /run 1.7G /usr 4.0K /service 119M /lib 8.7M /etc 4.2M /bin 188M /home 188M /var 12K /media 560K /opt 5.8M /root 23M /boot 16K /srv 16M /sbin
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drjenk
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:24 pm |
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Yes I did move mythtv back to /home prior to running the du command. I'm still getting the message, just saw 94%. Perhaps I will try symlink again, correctly this time, to see if that helps.
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marc.aronson
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:19 am |
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Code: 107G /data 107G for data is very large. My /data is 443M. Here is the output from doing "cd /myth; ls" on my LINHES 7.2 machine in case that helps: Code: archive games miro pretty stream video_stuff backup image_cache motion ------- system_backups ------- ipodfeed music ------- tmp ------ ---------- mythexport ---- tv gallery ------- phone --------- video
The dashes ("----") are directory names I've wiped out because they are directories I created and are not a part of the standard LINHES install...
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mythedoff
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 1:46 pm |
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I was seeing the message on my new frontend only install and have not had the problem since I: Code: sudo pacman -Sc The arch wiki suggests this can cause problems and suggests adding to /etc/pacman.conf Code: CleanMethod = KeepInstalled https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_TipsIn my pacman.conf CleanMethod = KeepInstalled is commented out. Others here can probably advice on the risk of doing this especially on a backend install.
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graysky
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:27 pm |
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Yes, /var/cache/pacman/pkg can fillup over time and purging it should be fine as you posted. Bleachbit is another method to keep unneeded files away. Dunno if it's in the LH repos or not.
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brfransen
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 3:00 pm |
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cacheclean runs on the weekly cron job (/etc/cron.weekly/cacheclean.cron) and is set to keep the 3 newest packages in the cache.
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drjenk
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:30 am |
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Thanks all for the info. I did do the symlink of /home/mythtv to /myth/mythtv-homedir but perhaps I didn't need to with this latest info (?). I did to the pacman -Sc command, my /data directory went down to 65G. But that is not in the root / partition, correct? Anyway I have not notice this message again but I haven't watched much this evening.
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marc.aronson
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:43 am |
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drjenk wrote: my /data directory went down to 65G. But that is not in the root / partition, correct? Anyway I have not notice this message again but I haven't watched much this evening. On my LINHES 7.2 system, "/data" is on the root partition. Perhaps you are on a new version that things have changed. I am still surprised that you have 65GB in that directory...
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