[mythtv-users] Same 18GB reported used by LiveTV shown on backend for months

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 08/26/2010 07:52 AM, Dave Richardson wrote:
> With nothing recording or being watched for whole chunks of days, my myth
> BE continues to report 18GB being used by LiveTV storage - and has reported
> the same 18GB for months...
>
> Total Disk Space:
>
>      * Total Space: 2,861,217 MB
>      * Space Used: 494,349 MB
>      * Space Free: 2,366,868 MB
>      * Space Available After Auto-expire: 2,603,505 MB
>            o Space Used by LiveTV: 18,740 MB
>            o Space Used by Deleted Recordings: 0 MB
>            o Space Used by Auto-expirable Recordings: 217,897 MB
>
>
> I've had a few power outages and at least one hairy upgrade - all which
> could have contributed to some unclean shutdowns of LiveTV.
>
> How do I track this down to clean this up?

I would bet that you have one or more log messages in your backend 
log(s) saying that a file for <whatever> was not found, so the metadata 
is being left/the show isn't being autoexpired.  Something like:

2010-08-25 18:12:31.418 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free 
Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 8 min
2010-08-25 18:12:31.426 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:  
'1061_20090320200000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.

Mike