gqrx filled my root filesystem

[g0hww]

My new Linux laptop moaned the other day about having a full root FS, which is on a separate 59GB partition from /home. After a little digging it turned out that a pair of files in /tmp were being continually written to by gqrx. gqrx seems so stable on my new laptop that I have a habit of leaving it running continuously, and these files can get quite big.

I thought that I may have enabled recording, but subsequently I've concluded that gqrx just writes to these files all the time. It seems to overwrite them next time it is started.

darren@len:~/src$ ll /tmp | grep gqrx
-rw-rw-r-- 1 darren darren 2811801600 2012-02-06 19:12 gqrx.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 darren darren 351473664 2012-02-06 19:12 gqrx.wav

I'm running from the git tip, this is the latest change:

commit 80ed78c
Merge: cfad8ec 6180f8b
Author: Alexandru Csete oz9aec@gmail.com
Date: Wed Feb 1 13:01:21 2012 -0800

Merge pull request #35 from jrcutler/master

Implemented FCD frequency correction

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Cheers,

Darren, G0HWW

[g0hww]

Sorry, I seem to have inadvertently discovered some unexpected formatting mechanism and didn't preview.

[csete]

Hi Darren,

Thanks for reporting this. It is probably the stupidest mistake I have ever made - and hopefully the stupidest I will ever make ;-)
It should be fixed in the last commit: 5152e47
You will still get a /tmp/gqrx.bin file, but it will be 0 bytes.

[g0hww]

No worries. The fix works for me :)

[g0hww]

Note that the .wav file remains in the /tmp directory and needs to be manually purged.