[vdr] Re: Stop writing video 2MB before disk full [was Drop support for multiplevideo dirs?]

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Montag, 6. Oktober 2003 08:13 schrieben Sie:
> Am Sonntag, 05.10.03, um 17:53 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Clemens
>
> Kirchgatterer:
> >> Well, 1-2MB is next to _nothing_ when dealing with video data files.
> >> So I guess it will have to be a _lot_ more than that.
> >> Or was this just a typo and it should have read 1-2GB (gigabyte)?
> >
> > i think he really meant only a few MBs. just don't fill the whole disk
> > completely to let room for small administrative files as the resume
> > file
> > for example.
>
> Some daemons run out of control if the harddisk is full. MySQL, for
> example, broks his own database.


Your complete system will break down if you put "/video" into root.

VDR eats up all storage it can grab in any way. So yoou HAVE to set up a 
single partition for the video-directory, otherwise you will crash something. 

Rene


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