[mythtv-users] When the disk is full... what happens?

Brad Templeton brad+myth at templetons.com
Wed Jan 19 00:18:52 EST 2005


On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:15:09PM -0500, Jack Trout wrote:
> > The log shows this:
> > 
> > ERROR: file I/O problem in safe_write(), errcnt = 3: No space left on device
> > ERROR: file I/O problem in safe_write(), errcnt = 1: No space left on device
> > ERROR: file I/O problem in safe_write(), errcnt = 2: No space left on device
> > 
> > Is that the right behavior, or have I messed up something else?
> > -Rob
> 
> Depends on your expire shows settings, by default autoexpire is on,

Is it?  I thought it was on until my disk filled, and I found that
it was set to 0 as the threshold, which somewhat counterintuitively
disables autoexpire.   Maybe I set it that way and forgot about it, but
I had the same problem this guy had.


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