[mythtv-users] Odd filespace issue

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rod Smith" <mythtv at rodsbooks.com>

> The -h option to df causes it to report sizes in human-readable form,
> which would be tebibytes (to zero or one decimal place) on most MythTV
> systems. Most MythTV recordings, though, are just a few gibibytes in
> size, so they'll be somewhere between 1/10 and 1/1000 what it will
> take
> to show up in the "df -h" output. For instance, if you've got 5TiB of
> recording space, "df -h" will register a change of 0.1TiB, or roughly
> 100GiB; but a typical HD recording of 5GiB is just 1/20th of that
> value.

Of course, and that was lack of caffeine; for this particular status
script, I'm not using -h.

Cheers,
-- jra
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