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How much space required for 'primary' drive?
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Posted by: llogan

I use a 6GB drive that has all of my backup images stored on it. However, recently when doing a 'TivoMad expansion' it said it ran out of space. My question is what exactly ran out of space. Since my images are only eating up about 2GB on the drive, does it create some kind of large scratch directory or something temporarily or was it referring to space somewhere else? I'm very confused about this issue. I removed the drive I was using as my primary and just took a blank 120GB and the 'tivomadded' portion succeeded.

Posted by: Robert S

TiVoMad will work with just the TiVo drive and the boot floppy attached - it doesn't need any additional storage. The mad/setup.sh is just a shell script, so you can easily see what it does.

It does copy some files to the active root partition, perhaps 3.0 has almost filled this partition? Would you like to check that? If TiVoMad doesn't work properly on 3.0, that would be important.

Posted by: llogan

Pardon me for being a bit slow, but how would I check that? By the way, here's a really stupid question. How do I rename a file? Thought I recalled just typing rename old filename new filename but that doesn't seem to work anymore. Reason is I want to clean up my backup directory.

Posted by: Robert S

Sorry, I assumed such an old soldier would have picked up some basic Linux skills.

Boot a byteswapping TiVo boot disk (TiVoMad is fine)

mkdir /mnt/1
mkdir /mnt/2
mount /dev/hdc4 /mnt/1
mount /dev/hdc7 /mnt/2

It's possible one or other of the mount commands will fail with 'must specify filesystem type'. This is normal.

If you then do

df

You'll get a table of all mounted filing systems which should include an indication of how much space is on them.

If you have your scratch disk mounted as in Hinsdale you can do

df >/mnt/dos/df.txt

or if you've got a DOS floppy:

mkdir /mnt/a
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/a
df > /mnt/a/df.txt
umount /mnt/a

should produce a file you can paste into a Forum post.

Under DOS the command to rename files is RENAME or REN, under Linux, the command is mv, with the same syntax.

Posted by: llogan

You telling me I should change it to read "Tivo Towel Boy"? :D Yeah I know for as long as I've been around these things I should know a hell of lot more than I do, I'm very disappointed that I never did the TivoNet/TurboNet/TivoWeb hack among many other things but I'm trying to get my altar to high definition completed. (50" plasma monitor, home theater PC, SDI modded DVD player, 1.28 terabyte media server, etc.). Thanks for the pointers, once I learn something I usually don't forget...