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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/22/2016 12:55 PM, Michael T. Dean
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56A27B33.4060707@thirdcontact.com" type="cite">On
01/22/2016 01:33 PM, Jack McGee wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">My mythtv system is showing significant
space used by deleted recordings. I have no deleted shows group
in mythfrontend.
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optimize_mythdb.pl is in daily cron
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Version of mythbackend:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mythuser@amethi:/etc/cron.daily$">mythuser@amethi:/etc/cron.daily$</a> mythbackend --version
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Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
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MythTV Version : v0.27.5-71-ga62fc0d
<br>
MythTV Branch : fixes/0.27
<br>
Network Protocol : 77
<br>
Library API : 0.27.20151025-1
<br>
QT Version : 4.8.6
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Mythweb shows
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Machine Information
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This machine's load average:
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* 1 Minute: 2.75
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* 5 Minutes: 2.73
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* 15 Minutes: 2.68
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Disk Usage Summary:
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* Total Disk Space:
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o Total Space: 11,324,355 MB
<br>
o Space Used: 7,895,292 MB
<br>
o Space Free: 3,429,062 MB
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o Space Available After Auto-expire: 9,808,792 MB
<br>
+ Space Used by LiveTV: 0 MB
<br>
+ Space Used by Deleted Recordings: 1,989,076 MB
<br>
+ Space Used by Auto-expirable Recordings: 4,390,654
MB
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Your first action should be to run find_orphans.py.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py</a>
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Thanks, I should have done that before posting.<br>
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It found orphaned recordings, and could not delete because
permissions were wrong.<br>
I recursively changed owner of recordings to mythtv (most are) and
orphaned ones were deleted.<br>
<br>
mythuser@amethi:/usr/share/mythtv$ python find_orphans.py <br>
Database backups<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media1/recordings/mythconverg-1317-20140121074314.sql.gz
37.8MB<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160115021401.sql.gz
117.5MB<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160116021401.sql.gz
116.5MB<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160117021401.sql.gz
116.2MB<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160118021401.sql
0.0B <br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160118064730.sql.gz
117.9MB<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160119021401.sql.gz
117.5MB<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160120021401.sql.gz
117.6MB<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160121021401.sql.gz
118.0MB<br>
amethi:
/mnt/media3/backups/mythtv/mythconverg-1317-20160122021401.sql.gz
117.9MB<br>
Total: 976.8MB<br>
Please select from the following<br>
1. Refresh list<br>
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But mythweb has not changed much:<br>
Disk Usage Summary:<br>
<ul>
<li>Total Disk Space:
<ul>
<li>Total Space: 11,324,355 MB</li>
<li>Space Used: 7,843,346 MB</li>
<li>Space Free: 3,481,008 MB</li>
<li>Space Available After Auto-expire: 9,823,550 MB
<ul>
<li>Space Used by LiveTV: 0 MB</li>
<li>Space Used by Deleted Recordings: 1,951,022 MB</li>
<li>Space Used by Auto-expirable Recordings: 4,391,520 MB</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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