From 09c473c0b9a3606f58fd5951332f1d0f841ad75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eikasia30 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:25:21 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] chore: document the need of linking partitions file --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 68f3c9b..20fb20b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ If you want to run `xtop`, install python dependencies to your personal virtual . .venv/bin/activate # change to where your venv is pip install duckdb textual +# xtop expects to find the partitions data source +# in $data_dir/partitions, currently we need to +# manually creating a symlink to /proc/partitions, +# replace /var/lib/xcapture to your data_dir if not +# using the default. +ln -s /var/lib/xcapture/partitions /proc/partitions + cd xtop export TERM=xterm-256color export XCAPTURE_DATADIR=demo # demo workload files under xtop/demo