There was not enough free disk space to start the recording

Plex Media Server v1.15.0.573-123756e9a - Apple Mac x86_64
MacOSX version: 10.14.2

Had a recording fail this morning with a strange error. See below.

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.175 [0x700004505000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Starting operation for 'Ready Jet Go! - E1 - A Kid's Guide to Mars; Jet 2' on channel 17.1.

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.180 [0x700004505000] DEBUG - Activity: registered new activity 520346af-115a-449a-8c59-a9e87dc8e31e - Recording

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.180 [0x700004505000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: HDHomerun starting a media grab on device device://tv.plex.grabbers.hdhomerun/1052F4A7 (Silicondust HDHomeRun EXTEND, supported) tuner 0.

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.180 [0x700004817000] DEBUG - HTTP requesting GET http://192.168.1.32:80/discover.json

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.180 [0x7000038bd000] DEBUG - handleStreamWrite code 32: Broken pipe

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.180 [0x7000038bd000] DEBUG - NotificationStream: Removing because of error

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.182 [0x700004505000] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Resolved subscription to library item 'Ready Jet Go!' (273)

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.189 [0x700004505000] DEBUG - There were 1 top-level paths for Ready Jet Go!.

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.189 [0x700004505000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: checking for -49322 MB of available disk space in grab path and transcode cache path

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.193 [0x700004505000] WARN - Low disk space: 16EB source file, 931.19GB capacity, 652.61GB available on "/Volumes/Drive2/Plex/Kids Shows/.grab"

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.193 [0x700004505000] ERROR - DVR:Grabber: Not enough free space in "/Volumes/Drive2/Plex/Kids Shows/.grab"

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.193 [0x700004505000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Operation for 'Ready Jet Go! - E1 - A Kid's Guide to Mars; Jet 2' on channel 17.1 completed with status error (There was not enough free disk space to start the recording)

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.193 [0x700004505000] DEBUG - Activity: Ended activity 520346af-115a-449a-8c59-a9e87dc8e31e.

Jan 24, 2019 07:00:00.196 [0x700004505000] ERROR - DVR:Grabber: Starting media grab failed.

Happened again. Same show. I’ve been recording these daily without issue. Not sure why it’s troublesome now.

Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.862 [0x70000489a000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Starting operation for ‘Ready Jet Go! - E10 - Earth, Wind, and Flyer; Mini-golf at the DSA’ on channel 17.3.
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.866 [0x70000489a000] DEBUG - Activity: registered new activity 674a1698-8fcb-4f44-acc0-b8f32d6c7ba8 - Recording
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.866 [0x70000489a000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: HDHomerun starting a media grab on device device://tv.plex.grabbers.hdhomerun/1052DDF5 (Silicondust HDHomeRun EXTEND, supported) tuner 0.
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.866 [0x700004e3b000] DEBUG - HTTP requesting GET http://192.168.1.31:80/discover.json
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.868 [0x70000489a000] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Resolved subscription to library item ‘Ready Jet Go!’ (273)
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.869 [0x70000489a000] DEBUG - There were 1 top-level paths for Ready Jet Go!.
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.869 [0x70000489a000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: checking for -135338 MB of available disk space in grab path and transcode cache path
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.878 [0x70000489a000] WARN - Low disk space: 16EB source file, 931.19GB capacity, 652.61GB available on “/Volumes/Drive2/Plex/Kids Shows/.grab”
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.878 [0x70000489a000] ERROR - DVR:Grabber: Not enough free space in “/Volumes/Drive2/Plex/Kids Shows/.grab”
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.878 [0x70000489a000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Operation for ‘Ready Jet Go! - E10 - Earth, Wind, and Flyer; Mini-golf at the DSA’ on channel 17.3 completed with status error (There was not enough free disk space to start the recor
ding)
Jan 24, 2019 17:30:00.878 [0x70000489a000] DEBUG - Activity: Ended activity 674a1698-8fcb-4f44-acc0-b8f32d6c7ba8.

I’m seeing very similar, reported here in a new thread. SiliconDust HDHomeRun Connect Quatro and the source of the grab is reported as 16 exabytes.

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