[vdr] Re: More about free space on hd

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Sergei Haller wrote:
> 
> high!
> 
> Once I noticed that there is some constant in VDR sources which determines
> the amount of free space to be left on the hard disk if it wents full.
> (something about 1.8 MB by default, IIRC)

VDR tries to keep 1GB of disk space free when recording.

> I think, it is limited too strictly. I think, it might be done
> selectively, e.g. if a recording is in progress, this amount of free space
> should be left on the hard disk. But if just the current replay position
> or the positioned cutting marks (which is a time consuming work) should be
> stored, they should be stored anyway.

The free disk space *is* only asserted when a recording is going on.
See my other posting on how to also do this in the cutting process.

Klaus
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