[mythtv-users] Excessive disk usage in remotecache on Raspberry Pi

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Friday, December 02, 2016 01:38:09 PM Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 12/02/2016 11:16 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> > One of my raspberry Pi's started acting strangely a few days ago and I
> > found it had run out of disk space.
> >
> > I found that the directory ~/.mythtv/cache/remotecache was using 1.2 GB.
> 
> No.  No one has yet implemented any cleanup there.  Users can 
> (occasionally/at shutdown/before startup/...) delete the 
> ~/.mythtv/remotecache directory as desired (as well as any other cache 
> in ~/.mythtv, including themecache, thumbcache, and Cache-*). The only 
> downside to doing so is that any images required during running will 
> have to be transferred (and scaled/...) when needed.

FWIW, for my FE/BE I wrote a Perl script to delete files in remotecache that weren't in any of my storage directories. Over a year+ of operation I had accumulated over 3000, consuming 315M. I'm happy to share it.

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