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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Stephen,

Thursday, January 11, 2018, 2:44:15 PM, you wrote:

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

>>
>>
>>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:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ~/.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.
>>>
>>If this system never ran mythfrontend, would ~/.mythtv/cache/ be a problem?
>>
>>Jim A

> No.
> _______________________________________________

You should mount /tmp and /var/tmp elsewhere as they on occasion can
get filled up by any process and on /var are more risky directories
like for instance /var/log

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