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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!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why not write to ram instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How much RAM would this consume?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

that does not matter you can just download more ram

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Every transcode could need as much disk space as the size of the file you're playing. If you have a media file that's bigger than your available RAM the transcode will propably cause problems because you will run out of RAM.