[mythtv-users] Deleting Recordings does not release Disk Space

Mr. Myth mythtv at blandford.net
Thu Oct 14 03:35:39 UTC 2004


Donavan Stanley wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:39:29 -0400, Eric S <myth.meister at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hope we can get to the bottom of this problem, I believe it is new for
>>me since upgrading to 0.16, I believe 0.15 was ok in this sense.
>>
>>I think this is a MAJOR bug and would like to see a fix back patched
>>into the 0.16 release.
>>    
>>
>
>It probably would be a major bug except that it's not happening to
>most of the users.  In fact I think you're either the only person to
>have ever mentioned it, or the second.
>
>On a side note ext3 is a BAD choice for the filesystem to stored your
>recordings on.
>  
>
I missed the original email but I am also seeing this issue.  Every few 
days I have to restart mythbackend to get back disk space.  It started 
at 0.16.  I am using xfs.

Michael


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