Support for Ubuntu 24 disk sizing?

bigethan · June 16, 2024, 6:38pm

I’m setting up a new computer, and using Ubuntu 24, which I realize isn’t supported, but not sure if that’s the cause here. My computer’s main disk is 500gb and has ~488GB free. PhotoStructure won’t run as it thinks the disk only has 14.8GB available as it’s under the 16GB default. Runs fine when I turn off the check by setting it to 0 with PS_MIN_DISK_FREE_GB=0 && ./start.sh using df -h shows nothing close to being full.

bigethan · June 16, 2024, 9:45pm

relatedly? The setting seems to get lost? I’ve got it in my ~/.profile - and the sync runs fine at first, but eventually stops with the disk size warning. Restarting gets it going again for some reason.

mrm · June 16, 2024, 10:11pm

Thanks for taking the time to report this!

I suspect PhotoStructure’s volume parsing is misattributing the small root partition to be the host for your cache directory.

Is this a completely default Ubuntu 24 installation? Is /home an auto mount, perhaps?

In any event, there’s a setting that lets you skip any misbehaving health check:

github.com

photostructure/photostructure-for-servers/blob/7f0cd0a0f4e46c4e62a67fc54f3e476ebc558c7d/defaults.env#L2601


      
          # end of .*?file\",\"unsupported file format\"]"
          
          
          
          ##############################################################################
          #
          # Settings for Library.healthchecks:
          #
          
          # ----------------------------------------------
          # PS_SKIP_HEALTH_CHECK_IDS or skipHealthCheckIds
          # ----------------------------------------------
          #
          # List of health check IDs to skip.
          #
          # Valid values: [
          #   "library-db",
          #   "library-directories",
          #   "library-free-space",
          #   "library-nothing-to-sync",
          #   "ps-version",

Set this array to include library-free-space.

If you’re willing, could you DM me the result of df so I can try to see why the volume parsing is borked?

bigethan · June 18, 2024, 10:26pm

sent! For future generations, I was able to get things working by using the sync command directly