[mythtv-users] Blew out my root partition

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Nov 29 02:14:05 UTC 2007


On 11/27/2007 12:37 PM, David Herman wrote:
> Ok.. This is the second time I did this and I am quite embarassed...
>  
> I have my myth box set up like this
>  
> 3 Hard Drives --
>  1 250 Gig - Drive 1;
>  2 500 Gig -- Drive 2 and 3
>  
> Drive 1:
> /
> /bin
> /(all of the standard ubuntu tree)
> /media/mythtv
>  
> Drive 2:
> /media/myth1
>  
> Drive 3:
> /media/myth2
>  
> Last night for some reason, myth did not do proper space management
> and utlilized 100% of the space on Drive 1 (to a point where it could
> not close the files it was writing on the drive). What settings should
> I have used to prevent this?

Make sure some (or all) of your recordings allow auto expire.  You can
set this on the recording rule (so it applies to all shows recorded from
that rule from now on) or on a per-recording basis (i.e. from the Watch
Recordings screen).

Mike



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