[mythtv-users] Disk Full - Recovery from?

[John Drescher]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/22/2009 06:40 AM, Tortise wrote:
>>
>> I think I get it, mythbuntu does delete the recordings, it just does it
>> over minutes rather than in a flash.
>
> Actually that would be a MythTV option that you (or someone) set:
>
> Delete files slowly
> Some filesystems use a lot of resources when deleting large recording files.
>  This option makes Myth delete the file slowly on this backend to lessen the
> impact.
>

The two main filesystems that this is needed on are ext3 and reiserfs.
If you are using either of these for your storage you should probably
leave that alone.

John