[mythtvnz] Deleting files

[Worik Stanton]

On 17/09/13 11:23, 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?
> 
> cheers W
> 

Looking at log, grepping for 'del'...

2013-09-17T11:34:46.917538+12:00 bruce mythbackend[2720]: E DeleteThread
mainserver.cpp:2224 (OpenAndUnlink) Error deleting
'/media/Recordings/2002_20130912040400.mpg' could not unlink
#012#011#011#011eno: Text file busy (26)
2013-09-17T11:34:46.917597+12:00 bruce mythbackend[2720]: E DeleteThread
mainserver.cpp:2196 (DeleteFile) Delete Error
'/media/Recordings/2002_20130912040400.mpg'#012#011#011#011eno: Text
file busy (26)
2013-09-17T11:34:46.917613+12:00 bruce mythbackend[2720]: E DeleteThread
mainserver.cpp:1974 (DoDeleteThread) Error deleting file:
/media/Recordings/2002_20130912040400.mpg. Keeping metadata in database.


That was when  was trying to to do forced deletes

W


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