[mythtv-users] Mythweb says I have 75 out of 72 Gigs used

[Malcolm]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 06:48 pm, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
> Chris Petersen said:

> Which brings up the point that for a filesystem that is dedicated to myth
> storage it may make sense to lower or even zero the minfree parameter on
> that filesystem (with tunefs -m). If minfree is 0 for that filesystem,
> then df will no longer be inaccurate, and if that filesystem is
> exclusively for myth storage, there is no particularly compelling reason
> to reserve space for root. The tunefs manual page suggests that
> performance can be degraded if the filesystem is allowed to fill up beyond
> a certain percentage. However, if the backend is running as root, the
> minfree parameter isn't preventing the filesystem from filling up anyway.
> Also, IMHO, the majority of the performance degradation that would occur
> at high usage percentages, is due to fragmentation of the filesystem. With
> the type of disk usage that mythtv does, I doubt that a very large amount
> of fragmentation is likely even when the drive is nearly filled to
> capacity. Of course if the storage area for mythtv isn't on its own
> filesystem, things are more complicated.

Thank you for the tip.  The 80 gig drive I was refering to is for myth 
recordings only.  I have a 10 gig in there for the OS.  I ran
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hdb1
and my free space as shown by "df -h" went from 19 Gigs available to 23 Gigs.  
Cool I just scored 4 gigs of space.

Malcolm