My Hard drive is filling up fast.....no extra recordings

excollier

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Hi, my Foxsat HDR has a 1 TB drive (fitted years ago) and and now, despite no extra recordings being made the drive shows that it is filling up fast. From 65% to 68 just in the last hour!
Anyone have a clue what is happening? I am running Raydon's custom firmware 4.1.1.
Another thing I have noticed in the last week is that it sometimes asks for login credentials when I try to access the webif, and is becoming slow to react to the remote control
Strange behaviour indeed after years of rock steady performance
 
You really need to get in there with telnet and see what is going on.
And 4.1.3 is the latest and has been out for literally years.
 
You really need to get in there with telnet and see what is going on.
And 4.1.3 is the latest and has been out for literally years.
what do I need to look for? Any useful commands to see what is running. This problem has only just arisen today, I have owned the box for maybe 12+ years
 
Try this for starters: df -h|grep mnt
leave it for 5 minutes and then repeat. If there is somthing consuming lots of disk space at the rate you say, then the figures between the two runs will be significantly different, probably on /mnt/hd3 - please report.
 
output from the Foxsat

Foxsat-HDR~# df -h|grep mnt
/dev/hda4 24.6G 595.3M 22.8G 2% /mnt/hd4
/dev/hda3 890.2G 612.1G 232.9G 72% /mnt/hd3
/dev/hda2 100.4M 4.0M 91.2M 4% /mnt/hd2
/dev/hda1 2.0G 68.5M 1.8G 4% /mnt/hd1
Foxsat-HDR~# df -h|grep mnt
/dev/hda4 24.6G 595.3M 22.8G 2% /mnt/hd4
/dev/hda3 890.2G 612.6G 232.4G 72% /mnt/hd3
/dev/hda2 100.4M 4.0M 91.2M 4% /mnt/hd2
/dev/hda1 2.0G 68.5M 1.8G 4% /mnt/hd1
Foxsat-HDR~# df -h|grep mnt
/dev/hda4 24.6G 595.3M 22.8G 2% /mnt/hd4
/dev/hda3 890.2G 612.8G 232.2G 73% /mnt/hd3
/dev/hda2 100.4M 4.0M 91.2M 4% /mnt/hd2
/dev/hda1 2.0G 68.5M 1.8G 4% /mnt/hd1
 
could this be the problem? file name keeps changing:

5792 root 1:41 /opt/bin/convert-ts /mnt/hd3/Video/The Queen_ 70 Glorious
6099 root 0:20 /opt/bin/convert-ts /mnt/hd3/Video/The Twelfth 2022_20220

I removed the convertfile package to see if that stops it (only installed it yesterday)
 
Foxsat-HDR~# lsof -X|grep /mnt/hd3|grep -v "/0\."
convert-t 6099 root 4u REG 3,3 5476 42917899 /mnt/hd3/Video/The Twelfth 2022_20220712_2100.hmt
convert-t 6099 root 5w REG 3,3 2284032000 15040516 /mnt/hd3/Video/The Twelfth 2022_20220712_2100.ts
convert-t 6099 root 7r REG 3,3 3395380800 42917922 /mnt/hd3/Video/The Twelfth 2022_20220712_2100.tmp
 
drive still filling up.....guess this machine is dying

Foxsat-HDR~# df -h|grep mnt
/dev/hda4 24.6G 594.9M 22.8G 2% /mnt/hd4
/dev/hda3 890.2G 615.9G 229.0G 73% /mnt/hd3
/dev/hda2 100.4M 4.0M 91.2M 4% /mnt/hd2
/dev/hda1 2.0G 68.5M 1.8G 4% /mnt/hd1
 
No, it's not dying. Presumably all those .tmp files are not getting deleted for whatever reason.
Something is obviously wrong with the convertfiles package, so I would do this:
Code:
opkg install convertfiles
opkg remove convertfiles
and then reboot and see what happens.
 
No, it's not dying. Presumably all those .tmp files are not getting deleted for whatever reason.
Something is obviously wrong with the convertfiles package, so I would do this:
Code:
opkg install convertfiles
opkg remove convertfiles
and then reboot and see what happens.
thanks, I'll try that as soon as I can
 
hmm....filled up a little more:

Foxsat-HDR~# df -h|grep mnt
/dev/hda4 24.6G 593.3M 22.8G 2% /mnt/hd4
/dev/hda3 890.2G 616.3G 228.7G 73% /mnt/hd3
/dev/hda2 100.4M 4.0M 91.2M 4% /mnt/hd2
/dev/hda1 2.0G 68.5M 1.8G 4% /mnt/hd1
 
You can see if there are any .tmp files like this: find /mnt/hd3 -name '*.tmp'
Once you are happy they really are junk then: find /mnt/hd3 -name '*.tmp' -print -exec rm '{}' \; will delete them all.
I have noticed that some of the .nts files have gone missing
Oh dear.
 
Foxsat-HDR~# find /mnt/hd3 -name '*.tmp'
/mnt/hd3/Video/The Twelfth 2022_20220712_2100.tmp

Looks like just one recording
 
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