[mythtv-users] Deleted recording - no disk space returned

[Gerald Brandt]

From: "Martin Moores" <moores.martin at gmail.com> 
To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:11:45 AM 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Deleted recording - no disk space returned 

If you are running ext3/ext4 (not 100% on ext4) filesystem, then recordings can take an age to delete from disc. I used the stats page on mythweb to monitor the gradually increasing disc space when I removed a ton of recordings (just to make sure if was actually happening). Took literally hours for the recordings to delete and the disc space to be freed 

Martin 


That's what I figured, so I waited over 12 hours before I said anything. The stats page does show a bit more free than 'df' does but not much. Plus, I'm using XFS, so I didn't think it was an issue. 

Thanks for the heads up on the stats page in mythweb. I didn't look there at all. 

Gerald 






On 10 November 2010 14:00, Gerald Brandt < gbr at majentis.com > wrote: 




Hi, 

I deleted a bunch of recording, most recorded on a slave backend that no longer exists. 

The recordings are no longer in the database (not on recordings screen, and "mysql -umythtv -p mythconverg -e "SELECT * FROM recorded;" > /tmp/t.txt" doesn't seem to have the recordings either). 

But, no disk space was returned. 

Is there a simple script to match what is in the recorded table to what is on the disk? Basically, if there is a recording on disk that doesn't have a matching table entry, I want to delete the file. Or am I missing something? 

Gerald 



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