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Thanks for the heads up. The files concerned are .ts files of recordings.

When I no longer need the recording after viewing it I delete it using OpenWebif

But I then had habit of emptying the trash can on a regular basis, also via OpenWebif. Emptying the "Rubbish bin" is normal practice in Linux Mint for example.

I access the sat tuner remotely hence the use of OpenWebif, works very well (timer programming, downloading recordings, deleting them. etc). 

But over a few months I noticed I had lost about 100GB capacity from a 250GB HDD and even one fouled up recording, a reboot cleaned things up. 

My current setup is "Remove from trash after 8 days" and "Keep 40GB for recordings". 

But from your comments it seems the best approach is to let enigma take care of trash management.

I am running OpenPLi 9.0-release (2024-10-11-release-9.0). Recordings are made on a USB connected HDD to the sat tuner. (An Octagon SF8)

However deleting the recording using the OpenwebIF the amount of free capacity slowly decreases with each delete. about 0.5GB for a 4GB recording).

On rebooting the capacity is restored back to normal. 

There seems to be nothing wrong with the HDD or even a USB stick the same effect is seen.

On checking the storage with a Linux Mint laptop and the USB storage attached directly (no Sat tuner) worked perfectly.

So the issue seems to be in the Sat tuner / OpenPLI system.

I even tried accessing the USB storage when connected to the sat tuner directly (no OpenWebIF) from the Linux Mint file manager (nemo) to move and delete files.

The same slow decrease in capacatity is seen.

I can live with it as a regular reboot resets the system so to speak. But I would like to understand what is going amiss.

Any ideas?