[mythtv-users] When the disk is full... what happens?

[Phill Edwards]

> Shouldn't some old recording be deleted? My Myth box only got about
> the first 25 minutes of The Amazing Race this evening and I'm in the
> doghouse.
> 
> I can manually clean up, of course, but I figured Myth (the backend,
> specifically) would clean up older shows when it runs out of space.
> 
> The log shows this:
> 
> ERROR: file I/O problem in safe_write(), errcnt = 3: No space left on device
> ERROR: file I/O problem in safe_write(), errcnt = 1: No space left on device
> ERROR: file I/O problem in safe_write(), errcnt = 2: No space left on device
> 
> Is that the right behavior, or have I messed up something else?

There's a settiong somewhere in the setup (can't remember whether it's
in mythfrontend->setup or mythtvsetup) which lets you specify the
amount of disk space remaining after which it starts deleting
programs. I assume it works. Have you set it to something reasonable?