[mythtv-users] only on Sunday

George Poulson george.poulson at gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 12:05:23 UTC 2018


On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 11:27, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:


> All physical tests point to the drive, could I prevent it from beng
> recorded to by resizing the partition to just bigger than the recordings on
> it?
>
>
Rather than going down the risky route of resizing a partition on a faulty
drive why not just "fill up" the drive by creating a dummy file or files?
This is then easily undone just by deleting the file(s)

Something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=filename count=???" should do the job?
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