Ubuntu 14.04
I'm in the process of converting movies from .MKV to .MP4. I convert some, then once completed, remove the .mkv file, leaving the .mp4. As the .mp4 file is slightly smaller than the .MKV, my free space should be the same, or slightly more, however, I'm losing space i this process. for every 10GB's of files I convert, I lose 10GB's of space. So my question is....does avconv/ffmeg create temp files while processing movies, and if so, how can I find these to clean them up and reclaim my disk space?
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exactly how did you "remove the .mkv file" ? Those numbers are suspicious for you forgetting to empty the trash folder (permanently deleting the mkv)
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I would agree, and hope that's the case...as Linux is not my forte. However, I've looked for /home/your_username/.local/share/Trash and it is not there. The part of the path shown that i can get to is /home. Looking around, people have said that the Trash folder may not exist until you delete something, but as I have, shouldn't it be created?
I'm using "rm" to delete the mkv's
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Try creating a new directory, set the batch file to save the outputs to the new directory, then manually delete the old directory when finished.
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The first place to look for temp files is /tmp, you can try
list files including hidden ones
Code:ls -lah /tmp
Code:du -sh /tmp
Code:df -h
Code:find /your/path/ -type f -size +500M ! -iname "*.mp4" ! -iname "*.mkv"
Last edited by ackboo; 14th Feb 2016 at 19:07.
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Created a folder: /user/home/test cp a file movie*.mp4, rm to delete the movie and checked for "Trash" folder...still not there.
Code:ls -lah /tmp
Code:du -sh /tmp
Code:df -h
*...this was 497GB I converted 30GB of movies from MKV to MP4 and was at ~437GB, delete3d the .MKV's and shortly after returned to 463GB.
Code:find /your/path/ -type f -size +500M ! -iname "*.mp4" ! -iname "*.mkv"
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rm to delete the movie and checked for "Trash" folder...still not there.
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This showed a few files that are still avi, and one that is named ".mkv.IF6Jkf",
Code:find /your/path/ -type f -name "*.mkv.??????"
Code:find / -type f -name "*.mkv.??????"
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Well, now it's a complete mystery to me.
I used
Code:find -type f -iname ".*" -ls
Code:find -type d -iname ".*" -ls
Code:tree -h -A /videos > /videos/ouput.txt
Code:df -h
So as I said in the first line...a complete mystery to me. I had avconv running yesterday for 5 hrs straight till I killed it. Has it taken this long for Ubuntu file system to catch up?... -
I guess it has to do with this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/332629/rm-not-freeing-diskspace
Maybe plex was still trying to read the files and delayed the free space recovery.
Another possibility is that your hdd or filesystem is dying.
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