[vdr] Re: recording on almost full hdd

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Subject: [vdr] Re: recording on almost full hdd (27-Apr-2002 10:32)
From:    Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de
To:      vdr@linuxtv.org

> apieper@gmx.net wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> The "Low disk space!" message is presented for up to 30 seconds.
> If you have set the watchdog timer (option '-w') to a value that
> is too low, it will hit during presentation of this message.
> 
> I suggest not to set the watchdog timer to values below 60 seconds.

You are right, that's it.

I just set the watchdog-timer to 30 seconds because if dvd-replay
lock up the reset won't take so long.
Now the watchdog-timer is set to 60 seconds - no more problems.

thanks....Andreas