My system recently ran out of space on / and so they system locked and wouldn't start the front/backend processes. I went in and deleted the MySQL logs, but that only freed up 220MB. I am curious if there are other things I can look at to delete so that I can free up more space. Here is where it looks to be mostly distributed:

I pulled out the entries for /myth as they are on another drive. Does the KnoppMyth install really take up 4.2GB? Is there something in one of these directories that I could probably remove?

The folders I would be looking at for space would be:

/var/logs
/tmp
/home/mythtv
/home/your-user-name
/root

Since the / partition is finite in space it can fill up rather quickly, especially if you have downloaded source and compiled and installed but not removed the source files.

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go to the root folder

type the following to see how big each folder and file is


look at the folders and see what is taking up all the space.

Most likely somthing in /var/logs

For somthing to compare to here is one of my frontends that has a pretty clean install

IIRC 5C1 had issues with not rotating logs, there should be a fix somewhere else here.
If you you use mythstream a lot to listen to po^Wnetcasts or internet radio you will run out space on / as the mythtv home directory (where the downloaded files are) is held on the same partition.

Bruce S.

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I had a 'test' directory in /mnt/ that held some 2GB for files. Deleting that cleared up enough space for a while. Muchos gracias.

Should my /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg be 86MB, or is this normal for a system that has been used for a for over a year?

Mine is 136Mb...

So that seems pretty reasonable to me.