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

[Joseph Fry]

> > 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.


I don't think he ever said his recording drives were full.  Just that he
lost all of his recordings... however many there were.
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