On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:24 +0100, Udo Richter wrote:
VDR just hides the recording, and does the actual deleting later on in background. Unfortunately, the recording wont be added to free space until it is deleted.
The actual deleting only happens if VDR is idle (no recordings, no playback, no menus, no external connections, etc.), or if VDR is in urgent need of disk space for recording/cutting. (urgent need is less than 1G or 38min left)
Deleting can be done manually, by deleting folders matching *.del in /video, though additional care must be taken in case of multi-disk /video0 /video1 etc. folders.
And don't forget to 'touch /video/update' or you get all sorts of things in the recordings menu!
You can force deletion of recordings using the undelete plugin: if you start that and select 'delete' on one of the 'deleted recordings' it finds, it removes the files then.
Cheers,
Laz