2011-12-04, 15:33
Hello there,
today i was flabbergasted that xbmc on my atv2 didn't work anymore.
I had glitches while scrolling throw the menus, ich couldn't watch anything on icefilms. So i tried to install the newest nightly. The wget command aborted with an error (no more free disc space). So i tried to figure out which disc run out of space
ssh and then df -h
I saw /private/var (/dev/disk0s1s2) was 100% in use.
I googled which folder could be the offender. At first i found something about iTunes Rentals. So i deleted everything in the folder /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/AppleTV/Video/LocalAndRental (see http://forum.xbmc.org/archive/index.php/t-111726.html for more details).
That didn't help much. This saved me 200 MB of disk space.
So i ended up tinkering with this article http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/22.html. I inspected every folder below /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC.
The offender was found very quickly:
/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/packages
I think all new available packages for addons will be downloaded to this folder, but they are never deleted.
I removed everything form that folder and i got 5,2 GB of free disc space.
rm /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/packages/*
I don't know if this is a bug, or a feature (rollback).
But just i case you got a similar problem, this was my solution.
greetz
regnets
today i was flabbergasted that xbmc on my atv2 didn't work anymore.
I had glitches while scrolling throw the menus, ich couldn't watch anything on icefilms. So i tried to install the newest nightly. The wget command aborted with an error (no more free disc space). So i tried to figure out which disc run out of space
ssh and then df -h
I saw /private/var (/dev/disk0s1s2) was 100% in use.
I googled which folder could be the offender. At first i found something about iTunes Rentals. So i deleted everything in the folder /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/AppleTV/Video/LocalAndRental (see http://forum.xbmc.org/archive/index.php/t-111726.html for more details).
That didn't help much. This saved me 200 MB of disk space.
So i ended up tinkering with this article http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/22.html. I inspected every folder below /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC.
The offender was found very quickly:
/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/packages
I think all new available packages for addons will be downloaded to this folder, but they are never deleted.
I removed everything form that folder and i got 5,2 GB of free disc space.
rm /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/packages/*
I don't know if this is a bug, or a feature (rollback).
But just i case you got a similar problem, this was my solution.
greetz
regnets