No disk space visible

Paul Mallett

HTS Tvheadend 4.3-2500_g7de8bf482 installed on Debian 13 trixie headless server. Long time user familiar with permissions however TVH seems unable to see massive available disk space, in the /home/####/recordings directory created by me also unable to create one of its own if detailed in Peramiters>Filesystem Settings. Running out of ideas, do I need to downgrade to "12 bookworm"

userxy79

I have TVH on a Headless Debian 13 system running also, in a VM but that should not matter.

Please describe your system environment a little bit in more detail.

Bare Metal / VM / Conatiner /etc. ?
/home/####/recordings on Systemdisk / Separate Disk in System / USB Disk / Networkattached Disk / etc. ?
Owner hts:video and Userrights 0644 or -rw-r--r-- given for /home/####/recordings folder?

In TVH under Configuration>Recordings>DVR Profiles>Default profiles it should look like following

Storage path: /home/####/recordings
Maintain free storage space in MiB: 1000 (or what ever you prefer)
Maintain used storage space in MiB (0=disabled): 0 (or what ever you prefer)
Directory permissions (octal, e.g. 0775): 0775 (leave it if you dont need special Permissions)
File permissions (octal, e.g. 0664): 0664 (leave it if you dont need special Permissions)

For Testing you can try to setup the default recording directory from inside the TVH Configuration Directory.

Storage path: /var/lib/tvheadend/recordings

At least this should work and show up the correct Systemdisk Space.

And what means "unable to create one of its own if detailed in Peramiters>Filesystem Settings"

Paul Mallett

userxy79 1.8Tb /home RAID1 + 120Gb /root+swap SSD Default settings on /home/####/recordings. Created NewUser and tried changing the path to /home/NewUser/recordings in Configuration>Digital Video Recorder Profiles>Peramiters>Filesystem Settings. Rebooted but no new directory created. TVH still shows 0 UsedSpace 0 Space Available. I'll try putting recording into /var/lib/tvheadend/recordings and see what happens.
journalctl reveals this......
dvr: Directory '/home/####/recordings' not accessible: Permission denied
which is just baffling as everyone is in the "video" group

Paul Mallett

Paul Mallett Found it!! The permission on my /home/#### was set to 700 and not 755 from the point of installation, it's surprising how often one is prompted to find the solution after asking the question. Thanks for the gentle nudge.

userxy79

No Problem Paul, glad to see the Problem is found/solved and everything runs as it should 😉