[mythtv-users] Lost all recordings because of ".xsession-errors" file

[Nick Morrott]

On 8 October 2012 03:12, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tonight me and wife sat down to watch a show... Only 5 recordings left...
> Hmmm...
>
> Get into the shell and check it out, 1.2TB used of 1.3TB but space left is
> 0. Alright. I've seen this in the past.
>
> Although what I've never seen is that my mythtv directory is EMPTY!
>
> A file named .xsessions-errors in my home directory was 937GB.
>
> EVERYTHING auto-expired... We are pissed. The 5 episodes left were database
> update errors... The files are gone!
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/93718/how-do-i-prevent-xsession-errors-from-eating-disk-space
>
> I guess it is my fault for sharing a "/" for everything...

Did you know everything was set to autoexpire such that any increase
is disk usage would result in lost episodes?

Seems like you must have had a huge number of recordings to be
occupying >1TB of disk space.

Nick