I have R5E50 running on a small system (PIII 733 w/ 40Gig disk) and not surprisingly I quickly managed to fill up the disk. Most of my recordings were set to auto-expire and the oldest recordings started to disappear out of the list. My problem is that this doesn't seem to result in any disk space being released. I've checked the /myth/tv directory and the files are definitely going away, but df doesn't show any disk space being freed.

I first noticed this when a recorded program I was watching was suddenly deleted because there wasn't enough disk space. It shouldn't have been
my oldest recording, but it seems the backend was duitifully deleting all of my old recordings in order to make space for something new.

Oh, if I shutdown the backend, I suddenly see all of the space recovered immediately (once as much as 5-6 Gig of space).

Any ideas on what could be going on?

See if you have "delete slowly" set in the backend settings. That will cause files to be nibbled away in chunks, rather than all at once, to avoid impacting performance as files are deleted. Typically, it takes several hours for the space to be recovered.

I'm pretty sure I do have slow delete turned on. However, I thought that meant something like minutes not hours. Is that documented somewhere?

Thanks,
Faramir