[mythtv-users] root partition filled up -- no space to start mysqld

[Dan Wilson]

Dewey Smolka wrote:
>> Unmount these 3 filesystems to expose their mountpoints on /dev/sda, and run
>>
>> # du -hscx /*
>>
>> as George has suggested. I'd be interested if the numbers you get from
>> this are different to those you posted earlier.
>>     
>
> Bingo. I'm not sure how this happened, but here's what I'm getting:
>
> /sdb2: mountpoint for sdb. Should be empty but here's what I found:
>
> [root at mythbackend sdb2]# ls -l
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1919606784 2008-05-20 08:09 3264_20080519220000.mpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6897453056 2008-05-19 21:45 3640_20080519184800.mpg
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root     111174 2008-05-20 08:10 3640_20080519184800.mpg.png
> [root at mythbackend sdb2]#
>
>   
One thing I do to prevent my / partition from filling up if I make a 
mistake is to create a recordings subdirectory on the mounted drive, and 
point mythbackend to that subdirectory.  I do NOT create the 
subdirectory in the mountpoint directory (the underlying directory in / 
when the recordings drive isn't mounted).  This causes mythbackend to 
fail to record if the drive isn't mounted, but it keeps it from filling 
up root by mistake.

HTH,

Dan.