Ubuntu Server 17.10.1 - SAB filling up wrong drive

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Ubuntu Server 17.10.1 - SAB filling up wrong drive

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Hi all,

Just moved from Windows Server 2016 to Ubuntu Server 17.10.1.

SABnzbd is installed and works perfectly fine, aside from one issue.

I have 4 disks in my machine;

1. sda - system drive
2. sdb / hdd1 - media storage
3. sdc / hdd2 - media storage
4. sdd /hdd3 - temp storage


I've set the SAB complete/incomplete folders to /media/hdd3/complete and /media/hdd3/incomplete.

This works fine, when an nzb is passed to SAB, it creates a folder in /incomplete, downloads, processes, moves to complete then it is moved to /media/hdd1/(Movies orTV).

The problem is, when downloading it is ALSO filling up sda, I started with ~90GB free and it's now down to 20GB. I'm assuming SAB downloads it locally to the same drive before it is processed to the incomplete/complete folders and mine just isn't getting rid of it afterwards?

Any ideas really appreciated!
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Re: Ubuntu Server 17.10.1 - SAB filling up wrong drive

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The problem is, when downloading it is ALSO filling up sda, I started with ~90GB free and it's now down to 20GB. I'm assuming SAB downloads it locally to the same drive before it is processed to the incomplete/complete folders and mine just isn't getting rid of it afterwards?
What kind of files do you see junk that 70GB? And which directory on your sda?
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Re: Ubuntu Server 17.10.1 - SAB filling up wrong drive

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To be honest - I can't even find them - the downloads/complete and incomplete in my home folder are both empty.

#df shows that I have 76% of my /dev/sda1 partition used which is about right comparing to how much SAB says I have space remaining, but #ls -lh doesn't show anything out of the ordinary.

It's definitely related to SAB as the use % on /dev/sda1 slowly goes up as something is downloading, and stops when I pause it.

I'm a bit lost.
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Re: Ubuntu Server 17.10.1 - SAB filling up wrong drive

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On Linux, you can use "ncdu" to find out where disk space is used.
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