On 9/8/05, Matt Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >I have 650GB on my master backend shared out the sole Myth slave > >> >frontend/backend > >> >via NFS on which I keep all my recorded shows. A few days ago this filled > >> >up. > >> >Instead of automaticly deleting older or lower priority shows, as I > >> >thought Mythtv > >> >was supposed to do, it just continued on recording shows of 0 bytes. > > > > Just a hunch: although you specify the remaining disk space in > > gigabytes, some filesystems reserve a certain percentage of the disk > > for root's exclusive use so that logging and daemons would continue to > > work if a run-away user process tried to fill the filesystem. From a > > user's perspective, "df" would show lots of remaining space (typically > > 5% for ext2/ext3) but writing data to files would fail if it resulted > > in an allocation request. If that percentage is larger than the fixed > > size you specified then the auto-expire routine would never be > > triggered. > > > > -- > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > A: Top-posting. > > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > This is Reiserfs v3 /w LVM on a hardware RAID 5 array. When I checked with > df the > whole filesystem was actually used up. So it really IS full and no > reserve... The > only thing this volume is used for is Myth storage, TV shows, video, music, > etc. > Programs are on another volume. > > _______________________________________________
Do you have the "allow backend override" enabled? This is supposed to take care of this, at least that is how I understand it. Cool _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
