[mythtv-users] Odd filespace issue

[Joseph Fry]

>> Just finally got the old girl running again last weekend with .26 (yeah,
>> just in time for .27; I'll upgrade it this weekend), and aside from all
>> the other problems I'm working, one really odd thing:
>>
>> I have watched it record to a file on one particular filesystem (XFS,
>> freshly cleaned after replacing the mobo from a zorch), and while the file
>> size goes up as expected, the free space on the volume as reported by
>>
>>  df -h
>>
>> doesn't change at *all*.  That seems very odd.  Can anyone think of a reason
>> for that that I couldn't?  :-)  Checked the filename, and it was definitely
>> the recording we thought it was supposed to me.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>
> Pre-Allocation?

In addition to pre-allocation... you may also need to run a "sync"
command to actually write the data to the drive; as it is likely
recording to a memory buffer.