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

[stuart]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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

Thank you for your response to my posting.  But will this work for me? 
I have everything on my MBE in 1 Logical Volume (my bad).  I'm thinking 
that all links will be to the same directory no matter which hard drive 
they actually are on.

Regardless, what I really need is a way to tell if the recording is on 
the SBE or the MBE machine. As I only want to reduce disk usage on the 
MBE machine. I'm thinking that the mythrename.pl script will not be able 
to create links to a file on a different machine.

In the end, I have yet to hear of a easy way to manage mythtv disk usage 
(i.e. there is not an easy way to tell where a given recording resides).

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Hummm, well, now that I'm turning it over in my head again, it may be 
possible to "clean up" the disk space on a particular machine.  I 
believe you can adjust the storage "head room" on a machine by machine 
bases. If I gave my self 200GBytes (roughly the space of the physical 
volume on the drive I would like to remove from the logical volume on 
the MBE machine), I could then start migrating file off the physical 
volume (an over night process from what I understand).

...interesting.