[LAU] How-to for simple recording for 3.5 hours?

[Tito Latini]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:42:40PM +0000, Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
> Last Sunday I set up my laptop for a 3.5-hour recording session, Audacity crashed after 2.5 hours.  Anyone know why this might have occurred, what to do about it, whether Audacity is in fact best for simple recording?

2.5 hours, 44.1KHz, and 4 bytes for sample (i.e. floating point)
require about 1.55G of disk space for 1 channel. (2.17G for 3.5h).

Is there enough space on your temporary directory?
(the default is /var/tmp/audacity-root).