[mythtv-users] Odd: Storage Group is showing two different drives as the same MythTV drive

[Robert Kulagowski]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 07/25/2007 12:38 PM, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>>      * MythTV Drive #2:
>>            o Directories: mbe:/mnt/d3/video, mbe:/mnt/d4/video
>>            o Total Space: 305,122 MB
>>            o Space Used: 104,125 MB
>>            o Space Free: 200,997 MB
>>   
> ...
>> $ df
>> /dev/sda6            310333324 110571892 199761432  36% /mnt/d6
>> /dev/sdb1            312445808 190638236 121807572  62% /mnt/d1
>> /dev/sdc1            312445808 112946616 199499192  37% /mnt/d2
>> /dev/sdd1            312445808 105659152 206786656  34% /mnt/d3
>> /dev/sde1            312445808 106638676 205807132  35% /mnt/d4
>> /dev/sdf1            390567516 288744124 101823392  74% /mnt/d5
> 
> Partitions /dev/sd{b,c,d,e}1 all have the exact same size and /dev/sdd1
> and /dev/sde1 have free space that is within 5 seconds of your max
> recording bitrate, so...
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/d4/delete_me bs=1M count=100
> 
> should make this "temporary" mistake disappear (for now :).  Or, with
> the appropriate of, bs, and count, you could make all of the disks
> appear as the same one in your status report.  (BTW, just guessing a
> value for count--may need to increase it.)

Without doing anything, now I have:


     *  MythTV Drive #0:
           o Directory: mbe:/mnt/d1/video
           o Total Space: 305,122 MB
           o Space Used: 186,170 MB
           o Space Free: 118,952 MB
     * MythTV Drive #1:
           o Directory: mbe:/mnt/d2/video
           o Total Space: 305,122 MB
           o Space Used: 110,299 MB
           o Space Free: 194,823 MB
     * MythTV Drive #2:
           o Directory: mbe:/mnt/d3/video
           o Total Space: 305,122 MB
           o Space Used: 105,380 MB
           o Space Free: 199,742 MB
     * MythTV Drive #3:
           o Directory: mbe:/mnt/d4/video
           o Total Space: 305,122 MB
           o Space Used: 104,139 MB
           o Space Free: 200,983 MB
     * MythTV Drive #4:
           o Directory: mbe:/mnt/d5/video
           o Total Space: 381,413 MB
           o Space Used: 281,976 MB
           o Space Free: 99,436 MB
     * MythTV Drive #5:
           o Directory: mbe:/mnt/d6/video
           o Total Space: 303,059 MB
           o Space Used: 107,980 MB
           o Space Free: 195,079 MB
     * Total Disk Space:
           o Total Space: 1904,964 MB
           o Space Used: 895,946 MB
           o Space Free: 1009,018 MB


So the collapse of d3 and d4 into one "Drive" altered the Total Space / 
Free Space calculation.

 >However, I do have a question.  Every once in a while in your master
 >backend log, you should see, "AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of
 >XXX MB/min".  What's the value you get?

2007-07-16 09:51:13.551 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-16 17:15:31.288 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-16 17:17:11.053 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-16 20:35:24.254 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-16 20:53:23.939 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-17 12:50:13.080 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-17 21:57:20.414 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-18 19:47:29.369 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-19 12:50:10.124 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-19 20:39:08.019 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-20 04:00:11.705 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-21 22:16:29.620 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-22 10:30:08.136 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-22 19:57:33.961 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-23 04:00:37.185 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-23 09:04:33.287 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-23 14:02:06.035 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-23 23:54:11.069 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-24 01:14:41.630 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-24 19:45:38.815 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-24 22:52:17.094 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-25 09:37:02.810 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-25 09:47:01.691 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-25 09:51:38.579 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min
2007-07-25 09:58:43.079 AutoExpire: Found max recording rate of 771 MB/min