Fake disk space used by ZM?

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ktara156
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Fake disk space used by ZM?

Post by ktara156 »

Hello,
I configured in ZM -> Option -> Storage my additional HDD storage with path

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/media/HDD/zoneminder
This is the only one record in Storage options. It shows all the time 93,17GB of 1.79TB in Diskspace column. And in Events column, I can see all the time

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0 using null
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And I don't know why? I'm having 300gb of events now, but I don't know where they are stored and why it shows all the time 5% storage usage...
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burger
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Re: Fake disk space used by ZM?

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I think I've seen this before, though I can't remember what is the solution. Check this page: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Using_a_ded ... Hard_Drive and make sure you followed all the steps correctly. I think that page has all the failure cases we've seen on the forums so far (such as using a filesystem that is not ext4, not setting permissions correctly, or forgetting a filter).
fastest way to test streams:
ffmpeg -i rtsp://<user>:<pass>@<ipaddress>:554/path ./output.mp4 (if terminal only)
ffplay rtsp://<user>:<pass>@<ipaddress>:554/path (gui)
find paths on ispydb or in zm hcl

If you are new to security software, read:
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Dummies_Guide
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