[mythtv-users] Automatic deletion on drive fillup doesn't work

[chris at cpr.homelinux.net]

> >I have 650GB on my master backend shared out the sole Myth slave
> >frontend/backend
> >via NFS on which I keep all my recorded shows.  A few days ago this filled 
> >up.
> >Instead of automaticly deleting older or lower priority shows, as I
> >thought Mythtv
> >was supposed to do, it just continued on recording shows of 0 bytes.

Just a hunch: although you specify the remaining disk space in 
gigabytes, some filesystems reserve a certain percentage of the disk 
for root's exclusive use so that logging and daemons would continue to 
work if a run-away user process tried to fill the filesystem.  From a 
user's perspective, "df" would show lots of remaining space (typically 
5% for ext2/ext3) but writing data to files would fail if it resulted 
in an allocation request.  If that percentage is larger than the fixed 
size you specified then the auto-expire routine would never be 
triggered.

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