Re: VDR not cleaning .del directories

Klaus Schmidinger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.vdr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 16.01.2018 19:44, Teemu Suikki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just experienced weird problem. My hard drive became 100% full.
> 
> But I noticed that there are tons of .del directories, some dating
> from months ago.. VDR hasn't removed them! What could cause this?
> 
> I see entries in log:
> low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording...
> Jan 16 08:23:06 puucee vdr: [30504] removing recording xxx.del
> 
> And these recordings ARE removed really. But the normal background
> cleaning does not happen.
> 
> This is somehow related to the fact that I now have Plex Media Server
> sitting on the VDR recordings directory. But still I could remove the
> .del directories easily from the command line. After manually deleting
> them, disk is now only 85% full.. And that's 4TB drive. :) So there
> were quite a bit of .del directories.

Do you have anything going on that causes frequent "user ineraction" with
VDR?

Try adding some debug output to RemoveDeletedRecordings() and maybe also to
cRemoveDeletedRecordingsThread::Action() (both in recording.c) to find out
what might be causing this.

Klaus

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