[mythtv-users] controlling disk space on "/" on mythtv backend

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:31:40 +0000, you wrote:

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>On 01/11/2018 06:55 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>> On 11 January 2018 9:49:39 pm Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote:
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>>> On my backend my boot device and "/" directory is a 16GB Flash drive. I
>>> did something stupid and filled up the drive.  So after deleting the
>>> file I moved to the wrong place I'm back to the normal free space.
>>>
>>> But it brings up a question.  Does mythbackend use temporary disk space
>>> somewhere on "/" that I need to redirect to one of my 2TB hard drives?
>>> I have tons of free disk space just not on "/"
>>>
>>> My first guess is all the /var/lib/mythtv/* files to see which grow
>>> large over time.  Obviously, Default and LiveTV are on the separate hard
>>> drives.
>>>
>>> Jim A
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>> ~/.mythtv/cache/
>> Is the first one that comes to mind for me. I have seen previous reports of
>> it causing disk space issues on this list.
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>If this system never ran mythfrontend, would ~/.mythtv/cache/ be a problem?
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>Jim A

No.