Conky to monitor disk space.

Question

Okay, I'm trying to modify Southie75's conky config for my own use, and running into some problems.
Here is the disk part of the config:
${alignc}Disks
${alignr}Writes/Reads
Root ($color${fs_type /}${color0}) ${alignr}$color${diskio_write /dev/sda2}${color0}/$color${diskio_read /dev/sda2}
${fs_used /}${color0}/$color${fs_size /} ${alignr}$color${fs_used_perc /}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /}
Vista ($color${fs_type /home/southie/vista}${color0}) ${alignr}$color${diskio_write /dev/sda1}${color0}/$color${diskio_read /dev/sda1}
${fs_used /home/southie/vista}${color0}/$color${fs_size /home/southie/vista} ${alignr}$color${fs_used_perc /home/southie/vista}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /home/southie/vista}
Backup ($color${fs_type /home/southie/mnt}${color0}) ${alignr}$color${diskio_write /dev/sdb2}${color0}/$color${diskio_read /dev/sdb2}
${fs_used /home/southie/mnt}${color0}/$color${fs_size /home/southie/mnt} ${alignr}$color${fs_used_perc /home/southie/mnt}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /home/southie/mnt}
Now, my version:
${alignc}Disks
${alignr}Writes/Reads
Root ($color${fs_type /}${color0}) ${alignr}$color${diskio_write /dev/sda2}${color0}/$color${diskio_read /dev/sda2}
${fs_used /}${color0}/$color${fs_size /} ${alignr}$color${fs_used_perc /}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /}
Home ($color${fs_type /}${color0}) ${alignr}$color${diskio_write /dev/sdd4}${color0}/$color${diskio_read /dev/sdd4}
${fs_used /}${color0}/$color${fs_size /} ${alignr}$color${fs_used_perc /}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /}
Anime ($color${fs_type /media/Anime}${color0}) ${alignr}$color${diskio_write /dev/sda1}${color0}/$color${diskio_read /dev/sda1}
${fs_used /media/Anime}${color0}/$color${fs_size /media/Anime} ${alignr}$color${fs_used_perc /media/Anime}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /media/Anime}
Storage ($color${fs_type /media/Storage}${color0}) ${alignr}$color${diskio_write /dev/sdc1}${color0}/$color${diskio_read /dev/sdc1}
${fs_used /media/Storage}${color0}/$color${fs_size /media/Storage} ${alignr}$color${fs_used_perc /media/Storage}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /media/Storage}
It seems to work, but the probem is that every time I show down my computer and boot it up again, conky will not start because the /dev/XXX has changed. I asked about this on IRC, and was linked to the wiki about persistent block device naming (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming), but I don't really understand how to make it work with the conky config.

Answer 1

$ /bin/ls -lF /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 086015D76015CBF6 -> ../../sdc1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 1FCE38490AF84BBA -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 3C693BB801316E01 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 6A55ED1A765187B7 -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 6e24d1db-3363-4261-bac4-45e10a39c5a2 -> ../../sdd4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 ad6e5ae5-1ea6-49ca-b45d-ca9fcdfdb618 -> ../../sdd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 d1c3bf9f-3554-4d6a-aafd-e3bf719ae255 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 e2ada9b5-0d59-46aa-a5a5-e46089eeaa44 -> ../../sdd2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-21 14:41 eeb92087-e378-452e-8cbb-47541961cf65 -> ../../sdd3
Then I ran
df -l
and saw that the drive I wanted was:
/dev/sda1 576717400 457374532 119342868 80% /media/Anime
so I tried:
Anime ($color${fs_type /dev/disk/by-uuid/1FCE38490AF84BBA}${color0}) ${alignr}$color${diskio_write /dev/disk/by-uuid/1FCE38490AF84BBA}${color0}/$color${diskio_read /dev/disk/by-uuid/1FCE38490AF84BBA}
${fs_used /dev/disk/by-uuid/1FCE38490AF84BBA}${color0}/$color${fs_size /dev/disk/by-uuid/1FCE38490AF84BBA} ${alignr}$color${fs_used_perc /dev/disk/by-uuid/1FCE38490AF84BBA}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /dev/dis$y-uuid/1FCE38490AF84BBA}% ${color0}${fs_bar 8,100 /dev/disk/by-uuid/1FCE38490AF84BBA}
and conky says
Conky: diskio device '../../sda1' does not exist
Conky: diskio device '../../sda1' does not exist
What did I miss? Do I need to include that whole first part too?
Last edited by murderbymodem (2009-07-22 00:17:22)