[mythtv-users] Recordings disappeared

[Jason Ward]

On 29 June 2010 13:26, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for both of your replies.
>
> I've heard that dirty word "zero-byte on this list but didn't know what it
> was.
>
> Currently only using the option of reserved space that mythtv thinks
> it needs(off 0).  I can try increasing that.  I have a cron job that
> reports disk space every hour and right about that time `df -h` was
> showing about 9GB.  So when this happened it might have been even
> less.
>
> I never saw my freespace fall below 5GB, and thats way enough to take even
my biggest recording (I have no HD tuners) but my experience/feeling was
that once free diskspace dipped below 20GB I was only a matter of hours
before zero byte recording showed up.


> For a couple of hours after this happened I scheduled max recordings
> to keep all tuners busy.  Didn't see the problem.
>
> Yeah, I can't see that for me it was related to the amount of work being
done by the tuners, I've only got 2, but they can record up to 6 TV channels
between them (in my current setup) and they've done this several times with
no problem.
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