[mythtv-users] Freeing up space for Christmas

David myth at dgreaves.com
Thu Dec 23 15:49:22 UTC 2004


Mark Crutch wrote:

>A few days ago there was a thread about freeing up some storage space
>temporarily. One of the best suggestions I saw was to copy the larger
>files to a second hard drive and set up a symlink to them.
>
>Unfortunately I can't do that, as I run MythTV on a SFF PC which doesn't
>have space for a second drive. However, I wondered about doing the
>following:-
>
>1) Copy selected files to CD-R/W or DVD-R/W
>2) Zero the corresponding files on the hard drive
>3) Use the extra space over Christmas
>4) When there is sufficient space again, copy the files back, replacing
>the zeroed versions
>
>Would this work? Will Myth ignore the fact that the files have changed, or
>will it try to adjust the database accordingly? And if it does adjust
>things, will it readjust them correctly when the full-size files are put
>back?
>
>Note that my SFF PC is not very powerful (a Mini-itx board), so I don't
>want to go down the route of transcoding in order to move the files to DVD
>permanently.
>
>Mark
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Myth just returns immediately when you try to play the file.

When you put the files back again it's happy.

David
PS if you have another PC you can simply copy them over the network too.


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