[mythtv] Backend not releasesing deleted files.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:04:02PM -0700, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
> I finally found the time to get my mythtv system to gether and found that
> about a week in that several shows had not been recorded beacuse of a full
> disk. Sense I had just removed a bunch of shows this seemed wierd so I took
> a look at status on mythweb which was reporting 106GB of 103GB with -3???MB
> free. Logged into the backend box and a df reported 100% full disk. Rebooted
> the system and several ext3 errors were fixed. 

Just to clear up this aspect of the issue and get it into the archive, df
commonly reports the percentage based on the amount of *user* space
available; when you create a filesystem, you reserve some space for root.

It's likely that since the backend runs as root, it's writing over 100% and
someone forgot to take this into account.

Cheers,
-- jra
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