[vdr] recording on almost full hdd

[<apieper@gmx.net>]

Hi,

the last days my hdd ran almost out of space.
While recording i got many watchdog-exits and
fragmented recordings.

The hdd-space was low, but not too low to store 
the recording (~1.5GB left after finished recording).
I don't know if this is normal because i never had
that low free space on hdd before.

Here are the corresponding part from /var/log/user.log:

Apr 26 21:37:17 VDR vdr[19508]: recording VDR file to '/mnt/video/vdr.00/Der_Junggeselle/2002-04-26.20.10.50.99.rec/002
Apr 26 21:43:26 VDR vdr[20282]: low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording...
Apr 26 21:43:28 VDR vdr[20282]: ...no deleted recording found, trying to delete an old recording...
Apr 26 21:43:29 VDR vdr[20282]: ...no old recording found, giving up
Apr 26 21:43:29 VDR vdr[20282]: confirm: Platte beinahe voll!
Apr 26 21:43:56 VDR vdr[20282]: PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting!
...restart

Apr 26 21:53:28 VDR vdr[15154]: low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording...
Apr 26 21:53:30 VDR vdr[15154]: ...no deleted recording found, trying to delete an old recording...
Apr 26 21:53:31 VDR vdr[15154]: ...no old recording found, giving up
Apr 26 21:53:31 VDR vdr[15154]: confirm: Platte beinahe voll!
Apr 26 21:53:58 VDR vdr[15154]: PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting!
...restart

and so on.

As you can see this occurs every 10 minutes.
What can i do aside from buying a bigger hdd?

...Andreas