[mythtv-users] Mythweb says I have 75 out of 72 Gigs used

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>On Wednesday 18 February 2004 16:31, Chris Petersen wrote:
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>>>I guess it doesn't read sizes quite right somewhere :)
>>>Is this fixed in newer versions?  It's actually an 80 gig drive yet
>>>"df -h" shows 76Gigs total and 72Gigs used.
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>>Does mythbackend run as root?  most drives are formatted with a
>>certain percentage of space reserved for root's files (to allow root
>>to work and fix things if the disk gets full).  df doesn't show this
>>"true" total amount.  It's actually a big issue with running
>>mythbackend as root, and I keep wishing that someone would write an
>>easy way for mythbackend to chuser itself when it starts up (like
>>bind, apache, mysql, etc. do - or at least behave)
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>Why should mythbackend have to chuser itself?  Just don't run it as 
>root.  There's no need to.  If you have permissions problems you need 
>to solve them.  Running as root is not an advisable solution.
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Anyone who follows Jarrods guide ends up with a backend that runs as 
root. TMK