(Solved) Dedicated Hard Drive

[camsystem]

Running ZM 1.24.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 server with a single disk drive. Working great but worried about running out of disk space. Need to add a new hard drive for the images. Checked out the WIKI link http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... Hard_Drive
Step 4. Locate Zoneminder's "events" and "images" directories. In Debian, these are usually in /usr/share/zoneminder
Unable to find these directories. Tried using locate command from root with no success.

Any ides or help would be appreciated

[Mad Professor]

One of my old posts might be of some help to you.

Here is the link: Recording outside of working directory

Best Regards.

[camsystem]

your previous post replies seem to give same file locations as wiki

mv /usr/share/zoneminder/events /usr/share/zoneminder/eventsbackup

My ubuntu server does not have the /usr/share/zoneminder directory

Are you running desktop or server?

[Mad Professor]

I am running x64 server.

If you read my 1st post in the link above, you would see that my servers folders are "/var/cache/zoneminder/events" not "/usr/share/zoneminder/events".

Best Regards.

[camsystem]

Unfortunately, I do not have a /var/cache/zoneminder/ directory either. Here is my what I have in /var/cache/.

ronnie@fred:/var/cache$ ls -a
. apache2 apt-show-versions fontconfig ldconfig munin
.. apt debconf git man pppconfig
ronnie@fred:/var/cache$

[camsystem]

How did you determine where your files were being stored?

[zSeries]

I run on Ubuntu LTS 10.04. In /etc/fstab I have

LABEL=HOST_Data /HOST/HOST_Data ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/HOST/HOST_Data/events /usr/share/zoneminder/events none defaults,bind 0 0
/HOST/HOST_Data/images /usr/share/zoneminder/images none defaults,bind 0 0
/HOST/HOST_Data/temp /usr/share/zoneminder/temp none defaults,bind 0 0

Note I apply strict naming conventions for my partitions which makes it easier to maintain /etc/fstab when you run many machines. HOST_Data is the label for the partition I want to contain my events/images and temp folders. HOST is the machines hostname and I have a folder in the root partition called the HOST which has the same subfolders. I am not sure if this is the best way to do it but it works.

[camsystem]

Found the events and images in this folder. /var/www/zm/

edited fstab as follows:

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/dev/sdb1       /media/newdrive ext4 defaults 0 2
/media/newdrive/zm/images /var/www/zm/images none defaults,bind  0 2
/media/newdrive/zm/events /var/www/zm/events none defaults,bind 0 2