[mythtv-users] Blew out my root partition

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Nov 27 17:49:20 UTC 2007


On Nov 27, 2007, at 9:37 AM, David Herman wrote:

> Last night for some reason, myth did not do proper space management  
> and utlilized 100% of the space on Drive 1 (to a point where it  
> could not close the files it was writing on the drive). What  
> settings should I have used to prevent this?

Maybe you need to increase the "Extra Disk Space" setting, under  
Setup/TV Settings/General?  Since there are other things writing to  
that disk, the default may not be enough.  I use 4 gigabytes on my  
system; I had problems when I went below that.




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