[mythtv-users] mythbackend mysteriously dying

Jeroen Doumen doumen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 08:06:05 UTC 2005


On 4/25/05, Donavan Stanley <geckofiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/25/05, Xiaotian Sun <sun.xiaotian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe I shouldn't, but the live recording directory is currently on a
> > fat32 partition. I'm tight on disc space and it's the only partition
> > with reasonably large space left (20GB). But my mythtv setup is just
> > an experiement for now. It's on my desktop PC. I'm in the process of
> > building a Pundit-R for the production system.
> 
> You're correct, you shouldn't use fat32 to store recordings. At least
> not recordings over 4gb.


Yes, fat32 is unable to handle files over 4GB. I use XFS, and can record 
files >4GB easily, without my backend dying. It's still running for now, no 
crashes yet...

Jeroen
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