[mythtv-users] And the bonehead award goes to...ME!

[Tim]

Jason Elwell wrote:

> That is almost as bad is what I did last week.  I manually ran 
> mythfilldatabase and kept getting a bunch of 'table not found' 
> errors.  I logged in mysql to diagnos the problem  which wasnt much 
> help.  I figured I must have corrupted the database during a recent 
> hard reboot.  Anyways a dropped the database and when I went to 
> re-install a fresh copy, again I was getting errors. At about this 
> time I realized that there was absolutely nothing wrong with my Myth 
> database and that the reason for the errors was that the hard drive 
> had filled up.  Boy I felt stupid and ended up losing  my entire myth 
> database including show information for dozens of recorded programs :(
>
> Lesson learned
>
> -Jason
>
Yeah that one had me going too.. I wish it simply returned an error that 
said "disk is full"! Of course it was the giant MySQL log that caused 
the problem in the 1st place. I still need to figure out how to turn 
that off... in the meantime I just added it to the logrotate schedule.

Tim