[mythtv-users] incomplete Deletes on a shared SMB directory

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:47, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Sun Nov 26, 2006 at 12:27:55PM -0700, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > I have noticed, though, that when I 'D'elete a recording that lives on
> > the other machine, I am left with a residual piece of the original
> > file. For example, I had this recording originally:
> >
> > -rwxr--r-- 1 jerome jerome 2697689088 Nov 16 03:11
> > 1040_20061115050000.mpg
> >
> > After watching it through Myth, I deleted it using Myth, but now I'm
> > left with this file on the storage machine:
> >
> > -rwxr--r-- 1 jerome jerome     751616 Nov 26 02:29
> > 1040_20061115050000.mpg
>
> What do your backend logs say?  If there was an error truncating the
> file, there should have been an error message printed something like the
> following:
>
> Error truncating '1040_20061115050000.mpg'

I checked when this first happened, and just checked again, and there is no 
error like this, nor any log entry with 'truncating' (or variants). I've 
looked through the log for entries made around the 'Last Modified' time of 
the remaining fragments and there aren't any.