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joesixpack

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low disk space
« on: June 21, 2007, 03:15:16 am »
ok....i'm getting a low disk space message now. just started when i added a md (diskless boot). the core has plenty o' space...i checked. what do i need to do? i'm freakin out here! ....not really.

report from hd:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1     ext3    227G  130G   86G  61% /
varrun       tmpfs    506M  292K  506M   1% /var/run
varlock      tmpfs    506M     0  506M   0% /var/lock
procbususb   usbfs    506M   96K  506M   1% /proc/bus/usb
udev         tmpfs    506M   96K  506M   1% /dev
devshm       tmpfs    506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
lrm          tmpfs    506M   33M  473M   7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volat

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Re: low disk space
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2007, 01:53:25 pm »
ok....i'm getting a low disk space message now. just started when i added a md (diskless boot). the core has plenty o' space...i checked. what do i need to do? i'm freakin out here! ....not really.

report from hd:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1     ext3    227G  130G   86G  61% /
varrun       tmpfs    506M  292K  506M   1% /var/run
varlock      tmpfs    506M     0  506M   0% /var/lock
procbususb   usbfs    506M   96K  506M   1% /proc/bus/usb
udev         tmpfs    506M   96K  506M   1% /dev
devshm       tmpfs    506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
lrm          tmpfs    506M   33M  473M   7% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volat

thanks

It looks like this is a false alert based on your df output above. We had a somewhat similar situation recently and apparently the lmce team know of this false disk space reporting. One thing to keep your eye on though is that if you create a pxe booted MD and then delete in Web Admin Devices->Media Directors it does not get removed completely and it is possible if you do not monitor this that you could have GB's of space not getting freed up. Just check in /usr/pluto/diskless/ and make sure that the device ID for your 'deleted' MD's is not there... if it is delete the directory to recover the disk space.
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Re: low disk space
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2007, 03:22:16 am »
Another possibility I ran into was related to logs going crazy. The current version of LMCE has pretty verbose logs (great for troubleshooting IF you know how to translate them into something useful). So if something minor goes wrong repeatedly (some autostart stuck in a loop for example) they can generate GB's of space very fast.

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Re: low disk space
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2007, 09:01:59 pm »
Mythfrontend frequently runs up several gigs of logs causing my system to crash. Is there an easy way to reduce or disable logging?

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