Tip: mount Jellyfin transcode directory to hard drive!

3 years ago by Dataprolet to c/selfhosted

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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Novi 36 points 3 years ago

I transcode to ramdisk.

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LunchEnjoyer 3 points 3 years ago

How is this done? If you don't mind sharing 🤗

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Novi 5 points 3 years 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

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Shadow 4 points 3 years 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.

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dataprolet 2 points 3 years ago

I have like a dozen people using my Jellyfin and sometimes 3-4 people watch something at the same time which results in a lot of transcoding data. At the moment my transcoding directory (which is cleaned every 24 hours) is almost 8 GB big. I don't have the RAM to do this.

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domi 9 points 3 years ago

Starting with 10.9 you can enable segment deletion so files are cleaned up while still transcoding.

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agent_flounder 1 point 3 years ago

I will have to try that once my ram upgrade gets here.

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Novi 3 points 3 years ago

You can restrict the size of the ramdisk so you do not end up killing processes. A large amount of ram is not mandatory.

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