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!

    • Novi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      tmpfs is the filesystem you are looking for. You can mount it like any other filesystem in /etc/fstab.

      tmpfs /path/to/transcode/dir tmpfs defaults 0 0

    • ShadowAEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Can just point it to /dev/shm as a transcoding folder, for a quick and dirty way.

      Otherwise you’d mount a tmpfs disk.