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

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 16:31, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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)

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.

-JAC