Posts by JackElliott

  • sda getting full, need to change to larger HDDs -- how?

    Hi, my sda drive (and its sdb mirror) are getting full and it's time to buy a couple of larger drives and swap over to them. I've looked through the Guides and didn't immediately spot a "how to" guide for this. I may have missed it -- can someone point me to the recommended procedure for moving all the data to larger drives and getting omv to start using them? Thank you!

  • Mac Time Machine archives taking up a lot of space -- possible to reduce?

    Hi, I'm running OMV 6.0.25-1 (Shaitan). I'm receiving notifications that I've exceeded the drive resource limit of 85%. Using ssh and du I see that the four Time Machine partitions (two for my Mac, two for my wife's, totaling two .sparsebundles, two .sparsebundles/bands) are chewing up a lot of space. Wondering whether there is a way to shrink those partitions to cause Time Machine to discard old archives and take up less space? Thank you!

  • What's running this rsync task?

    Indeed it was something I created. This file server here is in a house where my wife and I live in only seasonally, and that task was something I created last year; we went away, and I returned to find some things I'd set up under OMV that I'd quite forgotten. I suspect that it was an external HDD that I had mounted under /media, it is no longer mounted there so the task was cheerfully backing up files to /media on the SD card. In our other place I have a Synology NAS running and things are done differently on that. So, as is often the case, the system was doing what I'd told it to do, but I didn't remember that I'd told it to do it.

  • What's running this rsync task?

    I seem to have a mystery rsync task running, and I'd like to stop it. It is not listed under Services > rsync -- there is one Task listed there, but it is not Enabled. I found nothing when I did a crontab -l (for user root, me).


    I know this mystery rsync process exists because I get an email alert about a full file system. The alert looks like this:

    Code
    rsync: [receiver] write failed on "/media/BMP/bla bla bla": No space left on device (28)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(378) [receiver=3.2.3]
rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32)

    How can I find where/how/what is running this?


    Thank you!

  • Resource limit matched

    Thank you.


    It was probably something I did a while ago for some now-forgotten reason. The timestamps were from early 2021 and the files are backed up elsewhere. The offending entry has been deleted. Why I didn't get an alert before now, well, there are many mysteries in life and one must decide which are worth investigating.

  • Resource limit matched

    Well how the heck did it get so full?

    Code
    root@GTOFileServer:/# df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        29G   29G     0 100% /

    UPDATE: It's a large entry in /media: 27GB.


    I'm not sure what /media is for . . . the entry is labeled "BMP" which is a name I use for my portable HDD when traveling, that storage device is plugged into the OMV. The output of "mount" does not show the device, so it is not mounted. The files in /media/BMP are old, and irrelevant to me now. If this isn't some kind of mount entry then I reckon I should just be able to delete it. That's my thought, anyway, but I'll wait to hear in case that might be a very bad idea. Thank you.

  • Resource limit matched

    I received an alert from OMV this morning


    Code
    The system monitoring needs your attention.

Host:        GTOFileServer
Date:        Sun, 05 Feb 2023 04:44:20
Service:     rootfs
Event:       Resource limit matched
Description: space usage 89.3% matches resource limit [space usage > 85.0%]

This triggered the monitoring system to: alert


    How can I find out what the issue is? I have ssh access.


    Thank you.

  • Shared folder not showing up in MiniDLNA

    Yeah, the two different versions of the foldername was due to me trying to fix the problem by renaming that pathname with an underscore, in case a space was confusing things. I it didn't fix the problem, the one with the space was then out of date. So time to bring a bigger hammer. Deleted both shares, put them back in and now MiniDLNA sees the shares. So, who knows? Life is a mystery. Anyway, all good.


    Thanks all, for the help.

  • Shared folder not showing up in MiniDLNA

    Once in a while I do manage to come up against an issue that anyone else here could solve with one hand behind them. This perhaps is a bit more interesting.


  • Shared folder not showing up in MiniDLNA

    Well this is a bit odd. I have a shared folder, it's visible under Storage > Shared Folders


    I'd like to have it available for the MiniDLNA service. But it does not show up under Services > MiniDLNA > Shares > Create > Select a Shared Folder


    All my other shares do show up in the Service's dropdown, just not this one.


    I am sharing a subfolder of my target folder, and it's registered with the MiniDLNA . . . perhaps that's a reason?

  • Best strategy, updating NAS files from attached drive?

    Running OMV 6.0.25-1 (Shaitan)


    OMV has a file system that needs updating from a portable HDD that I pack in my suitcase. That drive is attached and mounted. I want to overwrite the existing files and directories on the NAS with the files and directories on the portable HDD. IOW, deleting everything on the NAS and copying everything over from the HDD.


    I could use ssh command line, or mc, or rsync . . . I'm not sure what is the best way to go about this. OMV ain't straight Linux and I don't want to break anything. How might I go about this?


    Thank you.



  • Share root directory of mounted partition?

    Drat. That's not the answer I was hoping for. Oh well.


    This is a portable backup drive I haul with me from place to place, not the OMV's main and mirror drives. I reckon my strategy will be to unmount the drive through the GUI, plug it into my PC, do the re-arranging of the folders, plug it back into the OMV and re-mount it through the GUI. Should work,.


    Thank you!