[mythtv-users] Lost all recordings because of ".xsession-errors" file

[Joseph Fry]

> > Tonight me and wife sat down to watch a show... Only 5 recordings left...
> > Hmmm...
> >
> > Get into the shell and check it out, 1.2TB used of 1.3TB but space left
> is
> > 0. Alright. I've seen this in the past.
> >
> > Although what I've never seen is that my mythtv directory is EMPTY!
> >
> > A file named .xsessions-errors in my home directory was 937GB.
> >
>
> I had a similar thing happen a VERY long time ago (maybe almost 10
> years ago) back when I was running what was then Mandrake.  It turned
> out to a xine video player process that had appeared to have just
> quit, but was actually still running in the background generating
> errors in a loop apparently...totally ran out my home partition.  This
> of course was a very old version of xine however.
>

OUCH.... Someone ought to add a few entries in the various wiki's and
readme's that your media should be stored on it's own partition(s)... I had
heard about similar cases in the past (probably Tim's 10 years ago) and
since then I have never stored any recordings anywhere but on their own
dedicated partitions.
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