Everytime my harddrive fills up, I go into recordings and press delete on one of the files. The computer freezes. I then reboot and and go back to delete recordings, and it usually then deletes the files i want.

This time, I quickly pressed delete and then reboot the computer. It then gave me an error message that said the disk is too full to boot into mythtv.

I need help.

Can I manually delete a video file from a commandline? Where are the video files stored? Will this help?

I am quite a newbie, so be as explicit as possible. All I know how to do in linux is open an xterm, and then change the user to root by typing "su - root"

Thanks for any help!!

Most of what you're asking is covered here: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=LinuxTips

if you still are having the problems, check your log files to see if they are filling you drive, very common problem I have been having.

You want to do a df on your system and see what is filling up on the drive, IE / - or /myth or any of the others.

If you are filling up / chances are that your logs are getting very LARGE!!

Let me know if this is solved,

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Once you go HDTV, you'll never come back!

Hi,
This will commonly occur if your size setting for the /cache/cache is set too high. Try going in to mythtv-setup and readjust the size. Once the buffer size is properly set, you should have no more issues with the logs going nuts. I run 1 gig (min setting) as that is almost a half hour of pause time.

Also there are some tid bits of information and a small script that I use to do a clean up of those logs. Perhaps a search will bring it up.

Hope this helps
MIke

I ran mythtv-setup and I did not see where to change the cache size...

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R5F1 : AMD 64 2800 : Nvidia 5200 : 2x PVR- 150

MythTV 0.19 makes no use of a live tv ringbuffer like earlier releases. There is no /cache/cache nor traditional cache size.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Hi Archer,

Versions <B had a cache, versions B> use the /myth/tv as a direct record storage. What you watch is saved with a short auto expire (not short enough for me IMHO) so if you watch much tv it will be full most of the time deleteing as space is needed for a new show.

There is a setting in the utilities/setup > setup > general > about 3rd page that has an adjustment, top line. Exactly what it does, I don't know.

With 'B7, most likely you have a bunch of .nuv files in the /myth/tv, you can safely delete them. It was a carry over from mythlink.sh in the <B series which allowed proper housekeeping.

You may fix that feature by editing :
#nano -w /usr/local/bin/mythlink.sh
and adding #
#print "Creating missing file $mythpath/$ofn\n";
# open ($dfile,">$mythpath/$ofn") || die("Could not open txt file. $!");
# print $dfile "Creating dummy file for $title $subtitle \l";
# close ($dfile);
# next;

What those lines do is make a dummy file if a title is in the db however, no recording is available. With out that file, in the version A, you could not delete the entry. With the B7, the recordings are .mpg so therefore the script thinks all recordings are missing and you will get a dummy file, one for each show watched.

The good news is that cesman with his wisdom, removed that no longer needed feature in R5C7

The original post did not specify their version of KM, so therefore it was a generic response. One additional occurance is that it could also generate large error logs and fill up the / partition. Some have also reported large mysql logs.

Check the wiki and a good careful search of the forum should give you most of the details and cures.

Mike

I went in and deleted all the nuv files in mythtv/tv and then I had only a couple of mpg files. So all my recordings are gone. no big deal I guess, but why is my myth still using nuv files?

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R5F1 : AMD 64 2800 : Nvidia 5200 : 2x PVR- 150

Hi Archer,

Appologies, I had assumed (no details in your post) you were only running R5B7 from a new install which would have meant your real recordings would be .mpg and the .nuv files were only from the mythlink.sh script. IF you had come from an upgrade then the previous recordings would have been .nuv also. The one thing I didn't mention is that all the error files are only about 65 bytes long, just that you end up with many hundreds of them.

For future reference, I believe there is some very good guides on the wiki from tjc as those would be probably called "orphans". He has other valueable tips on backup for future upgrades also.

Best wishes
Mike

Thats ok. I will most likley do a clean install when I do my next upgrade.

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R5F1 : AMD 64 2800 : Nvidia 5200 : 2x PVR- 150

Hi Archer,

Do a good backup and follow tjc's guides as you can selectively backup files and restore as needed. The R5C7 fixes most of little gotchas that were left in the A > B transistion.

Have a great day!
Mike