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

[Tom Dexter]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

Situations like the one he's describing here show why it's even more
important to have /home on a different partition than your OS and, in
the case of MythTV, your database!  If a runaway log like that runs
out the same partition as your database you could trash it altogether.

Tom