[mythtv-users] Mythdora holdout

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/30/2013 08:14 PM, Scott Bickford wrote:
> I am still using Mythdora 12.23 (now on .26).
>
> All of a sudden my root partition, which was formatted to 9.9 gigs, 
> ran out of disk space last night, even though I don't have any videos 
> etc.. on it.   Yet, I found 2.5 gig of live videos to delete.  Somehow 
> within a  few minutes, 2.5 gig was gone and I was out of space.

Sounds like you have set up your Storage Groups with directories in the 
list that are the root directories of mounted file system(s) and one or 
more of those file systems isn't mounted and MythTV is writing to the 
directory, but without the file system mounted, is writing to the mount 
point directory that exists on the parent file system (which is your 
root file system).

You should only put subdirectories of file systems into the Storage 
Group directory lists.  So, if you mount a file system for recordings at:

/srv/mythtv/tv/disk1

You should /never/ put /srv/mythtv/tv/disk1 into any Storage Group 
because that directory exists on the parent (root) file system as a 
mount point directory, so even if the file system fails to mount for 
some reason, MythTV will see the directory and write to it.  Instead, 
put the directory:

/srv/mythtv/tv/disk1/recordings

(or any other subdirectory) into the Storage Group directory list.  That 
way, when the file system isn't mounted, the directory in the Storage 
Group directory list doesn't exist, so MythTV won't use it.

>
> I resorted to deleting some yum cache and  language files to squeeze 
> more, but now I am at 100 meg free.
>
> Is there anything else I can do?  I have two other 900 gig partitions 
> and was thinking of resizing root with LVM.  Is that doable?


You really need to fix the source of the problem, or else--regardless of 
how much extra space you provide--it's likely to keep recurring.

Take a look at the output of the mount command and the backend status 
page (available in MythWeb, too) to see if the configuration I described 
above could be the problem.

Mike