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
