[mythtv-users] Yet another silly action to drive the mythbox crazy

[Jon Heizer]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Nicolas Krzywinski <myth at site7even.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> recently, I did just another epic silly mistake which had a huge impact on
> the functionality of my myth machine.
>
>
> HERE comes the story (head on to the end if this is of no interest to you):
>
> It all started with the program guide telling me the airdate of "Spy Game"
> - one of my favorite movies which I can recommend to anyone, not least
> because of the great soundtrack.
> The broadcasting channel was ZDF HD (the second german channel under
> public law). Those channels are notorious for their huge delays when
> airing. When setting up the recording rules, I always set a big additional
> recording time at the end for recordings on those channels, therefore.
> Now ... at that time I was in a hurry. I assume to having entered one zero
> too much for the recording overtime, resulting to 300 minutes instead of 30.
> But this I did not knew, until my myth machine started to stumble
> suddenly, letting mythfrontend and mythwelcome die slowly, mute logfiles,
> ssh login shell crying some crazy stuff and mysql turn to some kind of
> disoriented state (what? I am supposed to have tables ...?).
> "Quickly" (after three reboots, including cold restart with no recovery) I
> found out that the system disk was full.
> Apparently I did silly stuff like this before, as my fingers automatically
> knew to execute the joker command "apt-get clean" to get some megs
> instantly. This allowed everything to start up as usual.
> Then the investigation started, revealing a 46 gb recording named "Spy
> Game" with something more than 7 hours recording time in high definition.
> Roughly calculated back, this conforms to the mistake in setting the
> recording overtime, assumed above.
> Looking on the solid state disk serving this partition being only ~128 gb,
> minus the system files, minus some recordings protected from deletion, it
> becomes clear that there was some hard time for the backend to manage the
> storage.
>
> Though this is a rare case with a great influence of misuse, there is a
> simple solution to avoid such situations, described with the following...
>
>
> HERE comes the proposal for improvement:
>
> Always preserve some free space on the system partition for the background
> stuff being able to proceed their work.
> This condition for reserving some free space should even stop recordings
> that would violate the free space otherwise.
>
>
> What do you think about that?
>
> Nicolas
>

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just have Myth not record to your OS drive?
 Or at a minimum a separate partition?  Or a quota on the recordings folder?

Jon
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