[mythtv-users] Mythtv filling up disk space?

[Stefan van der Eijk]

I'm also seeing that my disk is filling up, but it's not due to the
mysql database. I think it's due to recorded programs that have been
deleted, but the mythbackend process is still holding onto them:

# lsof | grep myth | grep deleted
mythbacke 23174     mythtv   18r      REG                8,3
2894512128   28181291
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1028_20070604212500.mpg (deleted)

Restarting the mythbackend process releases the diskspace.

On 6/4/07, Mike LaPlante <mike at dividia.net> wrote:
>
>  If you can't get into a terminal then its definitely the system partition.
> If you were ripping dvds then the program may be using alot of /tmp storage.
> So once you get access to the drive either via single user mode, or knoppix
> look in the /tmp directory and see if any large files are in there. You can
> also usually remove the *.1 *.2 *.3, etc files from /var/log/ to free up
> enough space to at least get terminal access.
>
>  Oh and if you can't get Knoppix to work, your mythdora CD probably has a
> rescue mode.
>  --
>  Mike
>
>
>  Jonathan Seawright wrote:
>  Dave,
>
> I can't login to a terminal... All I get is a login prompt and when I try to
> login (even tried the terminal), it just goes back to the login after GDM
> gives me an error msg saying it can't write to it's config file.
>
> :O atm I'm trying to use knoppix to delete files... but I dont think that
> will work as I dont know how to give it the access it needs ... (it seems
> knoppix 'respects' the owner of the drive...) o_o
>
> Jonathan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Campbell" <dave at cpfc.org>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv filling up disk space?
>
>
> Jonathan Seawright wrote:
>
>
>  Well It has happened again... MythTV has filled up my diskspace somehow
> (on a 300GB HDD, the only one in my LVM) and I'm not sure what is causing
> it. Any ideas? (It couldn't be the recordings it does of LiveTV could it?
> I am referring to the ones that allow you to fast forward/rewind...)
>
> The problem seemed to start when I started ripping a dvd using an external
> program outside of MythTV's frontend (mythTV launched it)... I couldn't
> download any files...
>
> Does MythTV do logging somewhere? If so, I think that it could be logging
> so much that it fills up my drive?
>
> Completely consfused,
>
>  What is the output of
>
> du -sh /var/lib/mysql/ && ls -l $_
>
> Dave
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