Running out of disk space!

[Westiewill 16]

I setup emby somehow on the default directory on /dev/md2 partition which is only 19 GIGs and Ive ran out of disk space

the emby files are on /var/lib/emby/data which is on /dev/md2     but i wanted them on /dev/md3 which is where my /home folder is that is 2TB

 

is there a way to safely move files over to the /dev/md3 without doing a whole re install of emby

 

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev

tmpfs           3.2G   15M  3.2G   1% /run

/dev/md2         20G   18G  393M  98% /

tmpfs            16G  4.0K   16G   1% /dev/shm

tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock

tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/md3        1.8T  3.7G  1.7T   1% /home

 

westie@ns501000:~$ ls -la /var/lib/emby/data/library.db

-rw-r--r-- 1 emby emby 108527616 May  4 02:52 /var/lib/emby/data/library.db

 

 

i managed to free up little space enough to put emby back up but I cant add/rescan stuffs anymore or it will get full diskspace and shut down the server ;/

 

let me know what I should do,  TY

 

 

 

[Riggs 312]

 

I setup emby somehow on the default directory on /dev/md2 partition which is only 19 GIGs and Ive ran out of disk space

the emby files are on /var/lib/emby/data which is on /dev/md2     but i wanted them on /dev/md3 which is where my /home folder is that is 2TB

 

is there a way to safely move files over to the /dev/md3 without doing a whole re install of emby

 

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev

tmpfs           3.2G   15M  3.2G   1% /run

/dev/md2         20G   18G  393M  98% /

tmpfs            16G  4.0K   16G   1% /dev/shm

tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock

tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/md3        1.8T  3.7G  1.7T   1% /home

 

westie@ns501000:~$ ls -la /var/lib/emby/data/library.db

-rw-r--r-- 1 emby emby 108527616 May  4 02:52 /var/lib/emby/data/library.db

 

 

i managed to free up little space enough to put emby back up but I cant add/rescan stuffs anymore or it will get full diskspace and shut down the server ;/

 

let me know what I should do,  TY

 

Hi.

 

1. Create a new folder with the name that is most comfortable in /home/your-user/. Give him read and write permissions.

2. Enter the wed interface of the Emby server. Go to configuration -> Advanced - Change the path to: /home/your-user/your-directory-created/

 

With that, it should be enough. The Emby Server will make the change to those folders and you may have to update the library and reboot the Emby server after.

 

Additional after checking that the files have been created inside the folder you made (can take a while) you can turn off Emby and delete with root privileges the old folders that are inside /var/ lib/emby to release the space on /root partition. Then start Emby server service with the following command : systemctl start emby-server.service  or restart your machine.

 

This is a common issue with Emby on Linux. Maybe @@Luke can made an option to create a dialog option for the installation on Linux to ask for the creation of one folder data OUT of the /root partition that normally is smaller in the defaults installations of a common user. And many times advanced users have problems with the same the first time.

 

I hope this helps

Edited May 4, 2019 by HRSCR

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, what folders are using the most space?

[Happy2Play 9780]

The only two folders that could have a significant size are Metadata and possible Transcode-temp, and cache but that should not be very large.  But all three of these can be customized to a location of your choosing.
 
Dashboard-Library-Advanced-Metadata path
Dashboard-Transcoding-Transcoding temporary path
Dashboard-Settings-Cache path

 

Note Emby will not move items in these default folders to a custom location.

[Westiewill 16]

The only two folders that could have a significant size are Metadata and possible Transcode-temp, and cache but that should not be very large.  But all three of these can be customized to a location of your choosing.

 

Dashboard-Library-Advanced-Metadata path

Dashboard-Transcoding-Transcoding temporary path

Dashboard-Settings-Cache path

 

Note Emby will not move items in these default folders to a custom location.

 

I cant find the Advanced options in the Dashboard / Library .. section?  Only advanced options when setting up a library and I dont see a option to save metadata to a certain path??

Edited May 5, 2019 by Westiewill

[Westiewill 16]

Hi there, what folders are using the most space?

 

/var/lib/emby/sync

 

there was like 10 GB of temp mkv's  nuked them all...

 

would prefer the /home/emby dir to host the library.db and the metadata though because I know that is going to grow a lot down the road.

[Westiewill 16]

I cant find the Advanced options in the Dashboard / Library .. section?  Only advanced options when setting up a new library and I dont see a option to save metadata to a certain path??

[Happy2Play 9780]

I cant find the Advanced options in the Dashboard / Library .. section?  Only advanced options when setting up a library and I dont see a option to save metadata to a certain path??

There are three headers in Library (Libraries-Metadata-Advanced).

[Westiewill 16]

Oh man this theme I have hides it somehow. Found it. Thanks

 

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[Luke 42078]

Oh man this theme I have hides it somehow. Found it. Thanks

 

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@@Westiewill what do you mean? What theme hides what?

[Westiewill 16]

@@Westiewill what do you mean? What theme hides what?

 

I copied and pasted a dark theme css  from the css section on this community forum.. it blacks out the other options but once u select it blindly it switches over to blue font on black bg here is a screenshot explaining this

[Luke 42078]

Ok yes I would suggest removing the custom css. Thanks.