[mythtv-users] Deleted recordings in mythweb

[Jack McGee]

On 01/22/2016 12:55 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/22/2016 01:33 PM, Jack McGee wrote:
>> My mythtv system is showing significant space used by deleted 
>> recordings. I have no deleted shows group in mythfrontend.
>>
>> optimize_mythdb.pl is in daily cron
>>
>> Version of mythbackend:
>> mythuser at amethi:/etc/cron.daily$ mythbackend --version
>> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
>> MythTV Version : v0.27.5-71-ga62fc0d
>> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.27
>> Network Protocol : 77
>> Library API : 0.27.20151025-1
>> QT Version : 4.8.6
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mythweb shows
>>
>>
>>     Machine Information
>>
>> This machine's load average:
>>
>>   * 1 Minute: 2.75
>>   * 5 Minutes: 2.73
>>   * 15 Minutes: 2.68
>>
>> Disk Usage Summary:
>>
>>   * Total Disk Space:
>>       o Total Space: 11,324,355 MB
>>       o Space Used: 7,895,292 MB
>>       o Space Free: 3,429,062 MB
>>       o Space Available After Auto-expire: 9,808,792 MB
>>           + Space Used by LiveTV: 0 MB
>>           + Space Used by Deleted Recordings: 1,989,076 MB
>>           + Space Used by Auto-expirable Recordings: 4,390,654 MB
>>
>
> Your first action should be to run find_orphans.py. 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
>

Thanks, I should have done that before posting.

It found orphaned recordings, and could not delete because permissions 
were wrong.
I recursively changed owner of recordings to mythtv (most are) and 
orphaned ones were deleted.

mythuser at amethi:/usr/share/mythtv$ python find_orphans.py
Database backups
   amethi: /mnt/media1/recordings/mythconverg-1317-20140121074314.sql.gz 
37.8MB
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160115021401.sql.gz 117.5MB
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160116021401.sql.gz 116.5MB
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160117021401.sql.gz 116.2MB
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160118021401.sql 0.0B
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160118064730.sql.gz 117.9MB
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160119021401.sql.gz 117.5MB
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160120021401.sql.gz 117.6MB
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160121021401.sql.gz 118.0MB
   amethi: 
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160122021401.sql.gz 117.9MB
Total:     976.8MB
Please select from the following
  1. Refresh list

But mythweb has not changed much:
Disk Usage Summary:

  * Total Disk Space:
      o Total Space: 11,324,355 MB
      o Space Used: 7,843,346 MB
      o Space Free: 3,481,008 MB
      o Space Available After Auto-expire: 9,823,550 MB
          + Space Used by LiveTV: 0 MB
          + Space Used by Deleted Recordings: 1,951,022 MB
          + Space Used by Auto-expirable Recordings: 4,391,520 MB
  *


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