[mythtvnz] Deleting files

[Worik Stanton]

On 17/09/13 11:39, Neil Henwood wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:23:25AM +1200, Worik Stanton wrote:
>> Having run out of disk space I am trying to recover some room.
>> 
>> I delete files using mythweb but I get no improvement in my disc. 
>> Deleting an 8GB file does not free up *GB.
>> 
>> Is myth queuing up my deletes in some way?  Can I tell it to hurry
>> up?
>> 
> 
> There is a setting in the backend that tells the backend to slowly
> delete files to resolve performance hits. It usually takes a few
> minutes to get through a large amount of deteted recordings. You'll
> probably find that the file has gone by now.

I deleted gigabytes of data and free space has gone from 64k to 4.1M.

Tried rebooting...  No better

cheers
W

> 
> Another option to run is the Find Orphans script that I have included
> in the link to. I have run it before in the past, but take the ususal
> care when running unknown scripts.
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
> 
> 
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