[mythtv-users] Avoiding hard disk full messages

[Brent Bolin]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>  On 12/16/2010 02:03 PM, The GUIGuy wrote:
>>
>> No, they were warnings and I was prevented from performing an update
>> that needed 17MB of free space.
>>
>> I subsequently found a couple of files in /var that I could delete.
>>
>> I notice /var/mythtv/recordings has a couple of thousand files in it,
>> amounting to about 1.6T, yet the recording list in mythtv is empty. I would
>> have thought the mythtv housekeeping would be more timely?
>
> Housekeeping does not involve deleting files that aren't in the database.
>  Believe it or not, MythTV will not delete files that aren't its own.  :)
>
> Likely you need to see:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_aren.27t_my_new_recordings_showing_up_in_Watch_Recordings.3F
>
> and if that's not the problem, you should run:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/find_orphans.py
>
> to verify that the files are not associated with any database metadata.  If
> they're truly orphaned video files, you can then delete them with rm (which
> is easy to do by taking the output of find_orphans.py, putting it in an
> editor and using search/replace to change the list of orphaned video files
> (and snapshots) to
>
> rm /srv/mounts/twotb_1/video/2054_20080225110000.mpg
> rm /srv/mounts/myth0_1/video/4122_20101013113500.mpg.png
>
> etc.
>
> Mike
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How do you run this script?


root at myth:/home/mythtv# ./find.orphans.py
from: can't read /var/mail/MythTV
from: can't read /var/mail/socket

Can this be run from a putty connection?