Thread: RuTorrent Showing Wrong Disk Space

Hey everyone,

I just recently got a dedicated server from Xirvik but I have a problem with what RuTorrent is putting out as my Disk space.



I have a 250GB drive but you see that it's 9.6GB instead.

I installed Rutorrent + Rtorrent by using the instructions here:



Getting Started with VPS - SeedMyBox Wiki

I'm assuming I need to change something in a config file somewhere, or that it's showing disk space of the install location of RTorrent and not the download location. I'm not sure where to look/what to change.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

This plugin gets it's directory from whatever you set in rutorrent/conf/config.php (or rutorrent/conf/users/USERNAME/config.php. If you have a single-user server (not sharing with anyone using a different logon-name), try this:

In your /rutorrent/conf/config.php:
$topDirectory = '/home/rtorrent/'; // Upper available directory. Absolute path with trail slash.

Replace the /home/rtorrent with the path to your home-dir, restart your webserver (not necessarily rtorrent) and presto :)

And if you're really lost; the file are usually found in /var/www/rutorrent/

Just read their WiKi and unsure of your skills so here goes; italics are things to type:
cd /var/www/rutorrent/conf/
nano config.php
<then replace the line I mentioned>
CTRL+W
CTRL+X
<should be back on commandline now>
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
<log on to your ruTorrent interface and done>

If you installed a different webserver, try
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

Alright the first thing I noticed is that my rutorrent directory is installed in "/var/rutorrent/rutorrent/conf" would this pose a problem? If so, how would I move this?

The rutorrent place shouldn't matter what does matter is where rtorrent is placed, and more so where it places it downloads.

Perhaps your drive is partitioned? run "df -ah" this will list all your mounted partitions and tell you how much free space is in each.It's possible that your drive has where-ever rtorrent is trying to save it downloads to broken off into a small partition. Then you need to edit your .rtorrent.rc to move it to a bigger partition.

$ df -ah
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 9.7G 1.1G 8.2G 12% /
/dev/root 9.7G 1.1G 8.2G 12% /
none 0 0 0 - /proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
none 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/fuse/connections
/dev 997M 148K 996M 1% /dev
none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
none 997M 0 997M 0% /dev/shm
none 997M 48K 997M 1% /var/run
none 997M 0 997M 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda2 221G 203G 7.7G 97% /home


I think it is because this is what I get when I type "df -ah" where is the .rtorrent.rc at?

Edit: DutchRuff was correct, rutorrent doesn't interface with rtorrent to find out where downloads are saved, it uses topDirectory...which seems sort of silly to me as thats for a chroot...and rutorrent can just ask rtorrent where the download dir is the same way it asks for everything else.

It shouldn't cause a problem where it is so long as you can view rutorrent.

So edit
/var/rutorrent/rutorrent/conf/config.php following Taborque's instructions.

DutchRuff is right, modify the path in the rutorrent configuration file to /home/ and it will report the right amount. rTorrent will be configured correct if you have added torrents that exceed 9GB and not had any issue.

When rutorrent loads it runs a df type command in the background and rips out the line with the mount point you specify.

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