I noticed my home servers SSD running out of space and it ended up being my Jellyfin Docker container which wasn’t clearing the directory for transcodes in /var/lib/jellyfin/transcodes correctly.

I simply created a new directory on my media hard drive and bind mounted the above mentioned directory to it. Now Jellyfin got over 1 TB of free space to theoretically clutter. To prevent this I simply created a cronjob to delete old files in case Jellyfin isn’t.

@daily /usr/bin/find /path/to/transcodes -mtime +1 -delete

Easy!

  • DataproletOPEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    I have like a dozen people using my Jellyfin and sometimes 3-4 people watch something at the same time which results in a lot of transcoding data. At the moment my transcoding directory (which is cleaned every 24 hours) is almost 8 GB big. I don’t have the RAM to do this.

    • DomiEnglish
      9•10 months ago

      Starting with 10.9 you can enable segment deletion so files are cleaned up while still transcoding.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•10 months ago

        Im so looking forward to this. When i tried to use tmpfs / ramdisk, the transcoding would simply stop because there was no space left.

        • DomiEnglish
          3•10 months ago

          Nope, release target is mid-April currently.