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!

  • Domi
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    910 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      310 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.

      • Domi
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        310 months ago

        Nope, release target is mid-April currently.