[mythtv] Backend not releasesing deleted files.

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Sep 29 20:34:35 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 29 September 2004 08:04 pm, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
> I finally found the time to get my mythtv system to gether and found that
> about a week in that several shows had not been recorded beacuse of a full
> disk. Sense I had just removed a bunch of shows this seemed wierd so I took
> a look at status on mythweb which was reporting 106GB of 103GB with -3???MB
> free. Logged into the backend box and a df reported 100% full disk.
> Rebooted the system and several ext3 errors were fixed.
>
> Anyway that was Sunday so I checked again today. And tried a lsof there
> were again many files which mythbackend had open and were reported as
> deleted.
>
> I am running mythtv-backend-0.16-79.rhfc2.at on fedora core 2.
>
> Sorry if it is already fixed in cvs, but I did a search of the archive and
> did not find anything like this. Also if this should have go to user.

It's been discussed 3 times now on this list.

Isaac


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