OK, just cleared everything off everything, reinstalled oozoon in flash, updated to 17012010 drivers, installed a couple of images in ba, and all seems to be working ok at the mo...

Basically, I think that what it is, is that when you create the hdd in linux, it uses 5% of the hdd for root. It looks like the dreambox displays the hdd available size without the allocated space taken into account... Hence the reason why it wasn't letting me record.

Apparantly, you can stop it from taking up this space, but the programme isn't available on the dreambox to do it (can't remember what the name of it is), and I can't be bothered to take out the hdd from box again to it on the laptop. So, will just make sure that I always leave it so that it shows about 20gb free...

Hopefully this experience will help others