[mythtv-users] Deleted recordings in mythweb

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jack,

Saturday, January 23, 2016, 12:32:26 AM, you wrote:

> On 01/22/2016 05:10 PM, Jack McGee wrote:
>> 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
>>  *
>>
>>

> I found the Deleted group on Frontend and there are recordings there.
> Also many deleted recordings in mythweb.   I assume I can manually 
> delete them, have deleted a few, but have seen no difference in the 
> mythweb report on deleted space.  My question, is why?  I am thinking a
> permissions issue.
> This is one of the files in deleted group:

> mythuser at amethi:/usr/share/mythtv$ ls -l 
> /mnt/media4/myth/recordings/1004_20140125233000.mpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv ntp 2879944176 Jan 25  2014 
> /mnt/media4/myth/recordings/1004_20140125233000.mpg

You probably reinstalled your backend and used the old volume with
recordings from the old backend! 






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