[mythtv-users] Need to manage my HDD usage, any way to tell where a recording resides?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Nov 13 19:06:07 UTC 2008


On 11/13/2008 10:47 AM, stuart wrote:
> I need to manage my HDD usage.  I have a MBE and SBE and need to reduce 
> disk usage on the MBE by about 170GBytes in order to start removing a 
> Physical Volume out of my 1 Logical Volume (BTW, don't do like I did and 
> collapse all your mythtv files into 1 Logical Volume).
>
> Is there a way (i.e. while looking at recording in mythweb for instance) 
> to tell where (the MBE or the SBE) a recording resides?

IMHO, the best approach is to use mythrename.pl --link to create a 
directory full of links, then grep an ls.

ls -l /path/to/symlinks/dir | grep 
'/path/to/directory/on/hard/drive/to/empty'

Mike


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