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RE: AW: Newznab - Anyone using it? - vebud - 2013-01-03

(2013-01-03, 01:39)cirkator Wrote: I want to set it up in a similar way. Can you tell me how to mount the external hdd as /var.

WARNINIG: The following steps will completely erase all files/folders on the external hdd

I have installed debian wheezy on my PI so these commands may need to change slightly if you are using a different linux distribution.

1) ssh into your PI. If your using Windows you can use putty.
2) Connect the drive up to the pi and switch it on.
3) Type the following:
Code:
sudo fdisk -l

You may be asked to provide the password for your PI user account. Just type it in and press ENTER. This command should show you all drives connected to the PI. If you only have one usb drive connected it should appear as /dev/sda. DO NOT touch anything starting with /dev/mmcblk0 as this is your sd card.

4) load fdisk
Code:
sudo fdisk /dev/sda

5) If you had previously used this hard disk then you need to remove the existing partitions. To see what's already on the disk press 'p' at the command prompt

The above command on my PI shows the following for /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes
48 heads, 29 sectors/track, 701703 cylinders, total 976771055 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009a57a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 976771054 488384503+ 83 Linux

6) To delete a partition press 'd' and then the number of the partition. You need to do this for all partitions on the drive. If you need to see what partitions are left :
Code:
Command (m for help): p

7) Create a new partition:
Code:
Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-xxx, default 1):<RETURN>
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-xxx, default xxx): <RETURN>

This will create a partition that will take up the whole disk (see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/fdisk_partitioning.html for a more complete explanation). xxx should be the number of cylinders your drive possesses.

7) Write the changes to disk and exit fdisk:
Code:
Command (m for help): w
Command (m for help): q

8) Now you need to format the partition
Code:
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

Just accept any defaults. Once you press enter the program will format the partition.

9) Mount the drive
Code:
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt

10) Ensure the drive mounted correctly:
Code:
sudo df -h

You should see an entry for /dev/sda
In my case df -h shows:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
... other partitions
/dev/sda1 459G 885M 435G 1% /mnt

Ignore the size/User/Avail as these will be different for your drive.

10) Copy the contents of the existing /var folder to your new partition under /mnt

Code:
sudo cp -a  -v /var/* /mnt

This may take a while.

11) Unmount the drive

Code:
sudo umount /mnt

12) Edit your /etc/fstab to mount your new partition as the /var folder

Code:
sudo nano /etc/fstab

place the following line at the end of the file
Code:
/dev/sda1       /var            ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1

save the file by typing Ctrl X, then press Y and enter to save.

13) Reboot the PI. Once it has rebooted, login and type:

Code:
df -h

This should show you that the /dev/sda1 partitiion is now mounted under /var.

In my case df -h shows:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
... other partitions
/dev/sda1 459G 885M 435G 1% /var

...and your done.

If you ever unplug your PI and then re-connect it, ensure that the USB drive is connected and switched on first before applying power.

HTH


NB: I followed various tutorials to do all this and it worked for me. YMMV.










AW: Newznab - Anyone using it? - cirkator - 2013-01-04

Thanks a lot. Very detailed explanation... Big Grin
I hope I get my pi soon!


RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - vikjon0 - 2013-01-06

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RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - snooker - 2013-01-08

I'm wondering if I can ask for help with a new Newznab+ installation here? If not, could someone direct me to a good place to ask quesitons (no one is in the #newznab irc channel)

I followed the guide to set up NewsNab here: http://www.tiag.me/installing-newznab-with-xampp-on-windows/
I'm Running it on Windows 7 using Xampp/Apache/MySQL

I've followed that guide, and everything set up very nicely. I activated a few groups, and it indexed them perfectly. I've both downloaded the NZBs created, and directly sent then to sabnzbd. In the case of every NZB, I get failed downloads with "out of your server retention?"

I must have set something up wrong. My first guess would be the USENET SETTINGS area of the Newznab admin settings. What should I be setting minimum completion percentage and minimun files size to? Would the Header retention setting make any difference?

For reference, I'm using Astraweb as a usenet provider.

Gosh, the created Newznab website looks so pretty, I'm just dissapointed that I can't get it to work.


RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - Saner - 2013-01-08

It could be the files have been removed from the server under DMCA requests.

It would say "Out of retention" if they had.


RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - nordberg - 2013-01-09

(2012-12-16, 18:32)wiz561 Wrote: .

4) I donated to the project and got the extra regexes. You can go on their irc channel and request a backfill torrent if you want...for the people who donated.

I donated as well... I went into the IRC and asked for a backfill torrent. Got nowhere at all.

Any chance someone could upload a backfill torrent somewhere?




RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - Saner - 2013-01-09

try "?? nzbdump" when in the channel.




RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - vikjon0 - 2013-01-09

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RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - scalda - 2013-01-09

Hi all,

If you want some help or info head over to the forum that has been set up by one of the users and it is really helpful and clear even got tapatalk enabled

http://www.newznabforums.com/

hope this helps


RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - Aenima99x - 2013-01-10

Thanks for the link to the forums scalda!


RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - nordberg - 2013-01-10

(2013-01-09, 20:11)Saner Wrote: try "?? nzbdump" when in the channel.

Thanks! Sorted...




RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - chrisuk11 - 2013-01-16

has anyone managed to get the group vesdaris enabled?

If so, how did you manage it, as I just can't get it to work. I have added other groups manually and these are working fine Sad


RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - plupien79 - 2013-01-29

Anyone know how to shrink the database size? Mine's around 50gigs and getting laggy on mysql operations.


RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - marcus2704 - 2013-01-30

I notice that there are groups Id like which are not on the admin page list in Newznab paid, for example alt.binaries.global.quake, and alt.binaries.frogs. Does anyone know how I go about obtaining the regex codes so that I can add the group manually, there seems to be a lot of HD content in those groups which Im missing.


RE: Newznab - Anyone using it? - chrisuk11 - 2013-02-01

Hi Marcus.

On the admin page > Add Groups >

Name = alt.binaries.global.quake.
Back fill Days = How many days do you want it to backfill
Active = yes

This will add the group so you can search through it

Hope this helps