[gentoo-user] avidemux

[gentoo-user] avidemux

[Uwe Thiem]

Hi folks,

while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I 
can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores 
them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home and 
presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in my home 
directory didn't reveal anything. 

It must have eaten about 30GB, but where? Anybody?

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] avidemux

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked:
> Hi folks,
> 
> while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I 
> can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores 
> them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home and 
> presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in my home 
> directory didn't reveal anything. 

Presumeably it could be a bunch of small files, rather than 1 file
bigger than 1 gigabyte (as an aside, why is it for my version of find,
+1G is not a valid size? The only units that it admits [according to
the man page] are b[lock], c[haracter=byte], w[ord], and k[ilo]]),
which might explain why your find command doesn't see it. 

Have you looked at the output of 
  du --max-depth 1 | sort -g

It should show you which are your abnormally large directories...

HTH,

W

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Re: [gentoo-user] avidemux

[Uwe Thiem]

On 27 July 2006 22:02, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I
> > can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it
> > stores them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home
> > and presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in
> > my home directory didn't reveal anything.
>
> Presumeably it could be a bunch of small files, rather than 1 file
> bigger than 1 gigabyte (as an aside, why is it for my version of find,
> +1G is not a valid size? The only units that it admits [according to
> the man page] are b[lock], c[haracter=byte], w[ord], and k[ilo]]),
> which might explain why your find command doesn't see it.

>From "man find":

       -size n[cwbkMG]
              File uses n units of space.  The following suffixes can be used:

              `b'    for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is 
used)

              `c'    for bytes

              `w'    for two-byte words

              `k'    for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes)

              `M'    for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)

              `G'    for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes)

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] avidemux

[Willie Wong]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:19:21AM +0100, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked:
> >From "man find":
> 
>        -size n[cwbkMG]
>               File uses n units of space.  The following suffixes can be used:
> 
>               `b'    for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is 
> used)
> 
>               `c'    for bytes
> 
>               `w'    for two-byte words
> 
>               `k'    for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes)
> 
>               `M'    for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes)
> 
>               `G'    for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes)

I just checked my ~x86 machine, and it is the same as what you gave.
But on my x86 server it doesn't have M or G. I guess I must have an
older version of findutils on it then. 

Thanks, 

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[gentoo-user] Re: avidemux

[Harm Geerts]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 22:47, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I
> can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores
> them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home and
> presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in my home
> directory didn't reveal anything.
>
> It must have eaten about 30GB, but where? Anybody?

If you started avidemux from within your desktop environment you might want to 
check ~/.xsession-errors
I've seen this file grow very large in the past.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: avidemux

[Uwe Thiem]

On 27 July 2006 22:46, Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 22:47, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I
> > can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it
> > stores them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home
> > and presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in
> > my home directory didn't reveal anything.
> >
> > It must have eaten about 30GB, but where? Anybody?
>
> If you started avidemux from within your desktop environment you might want
> to check ~/.xsession-errors
> I've seen this file grow very large in the past.

Yeah, I saw that. It was about 36G, and I removed it. Still the harddisk 
remained full. What I did not take into account was that that file was still 
open. So it didn't get erased from the harddrive. Logging out and in again 
solved the problem.

Stupid me!

On the other hand, this kind of behaviour makes avidemux unusable. 

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] avidemux

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:47:09 +0100
Uwe Thiem wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home.

permanently or temporarily?

>I 
> can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores 
> them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home and 
> presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in my home 
> directory didn't reveal anything. 

were you trancoding to another format? That can create quite large files, sorry dunno where they are though.

> 
> It must have eaten about 30GB, but where? Anybody?
> 

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