[mythtv-users] Schedules direct question

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> From: Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Schedules direct question
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 3:33 PM
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Phill Wiggin
> <alamar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I ran into something like this a few days ago
> when I ran out of disk
> >> > space on my server. Any chance that's
> happening here?
> >>
> >>  No I have a good bit of room on that partition
> just yet, but i have
> >> much more room on a partition dedicated to Myth-Tv
> recordings (if I ever
> >> get that far), that I'd be willing to use for
> any Myth-tv purpose.  Is
> >> that even possible, moving the relevant config and
> database files over
> >> to the dedicated sapce?
> >>
> >
> > To answer your question, yes, you _could_ move the
> files to another
> > partition, but there's probably no real benefit to
> doing so.  Just a
> > datapoint, but I've been running my current
> install of Myth for.. oh, 18
> > months or so, and the MySQL database is still under
> 200Meg. If you've got a
> > few gigs free on the partition you're working on,
> you should be fine.
> >
> > The only reason I could see that your primary
> partition might fill up
> > quickly is if you run into some sort of constant error
> that gets logged to a
> > file. I've seen log files grow into the Gb range
> _really_ quickly.  But
> > that's an anomoly and most people never see that.
> >
> > PhillW
> 
> My backend server also acts as a file server for other
> machines on the
> network. It's a simple partition layout where I have
> all the myth
> stuff as well as my home directory on the same partition. I
> started
> adding a bunch of files to my backup directory and filled
> the machine
> nearly full without thinking about how that would effect
> Myth. My
> mistake.
> 
> Anyway, I've run Myth for 3-4 years now and the Myth
> databases have
> never been a big problem. This was a problem I caused
> myself. None the
> less, that's why I raised the issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

fwiw, my master fe got plugged by mysql filling /var/log/mysql/ with mysql-bin bkup files. had 4 gigs or so.