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Hi,
I got zoneminder v1.25 working but found that it filled up my remainging disk space 4Gb overnight. As I hadn't set-up a purgewhenfull filter yet.
Unwisely I chose to rm -rf the full directory of /var/cache/zoneminder/1/events/.
I expected zoneminder to recreate any directories needed as required. Something is not right though.
Although zoneminder records it is unable to playback.
I tried running "zmfix -a". I'm not sure what its supposed to fix but it didn't do anything for this problem.

I can just re-install as it is a new installation but I would like to understand the system better.
(any links to discussions or documentation of the design would be very useful)

Is there anyway to repair the /var/cache directory structure?
What is a easy, correct and safe way to *manually* purge parts of it when it starts to get too full?

Regards,

Bruce.

It seems I was wrong and zoneminder does at least partially repair the cache itself.
I can happily playback events in firefox but for some reason not chrome. Though both browsers display the live feed perfectly.

Hello, after filled up hdd, depend on your system (best to separate mysql database directory and zoneminder image directory)
i need to repair mysql bdd
on my gentoo :

# /etc/init.d/zoneminder stop
# /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
# myisamchk --extend-check /var/lib/mysql/zm/*.MYI
# myisamchk --recover /var/lib/mysql/zm/*.MYI
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
# /etc/init.d/zoneminder start

or repair zoneminder bdd with phpMyAdmin

Its the image directory taking up most of the space but I don't know what it is safe to delete.
I guess find . -name \*.jpg | xargs rm -f rather than rm -f is safer.
Of course that leaves the database with dangling events.

I'm sure there is a better way.