[mythtv-users] Please explain
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Dec 14 17:15:44 EST 2005
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:01, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:57, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> > > If there is no reason, please consider giving us an hourly
> > > resolution
> > > in the "Keep LiveTV on disk" setup. I cannot afford keeping 24G
> > > extra
> > > free space on my disk, at least not all the time.
> >
> > You shouldn't need to, I'm pretty sure. The older live shows should
> > be
> > automatically
> > set to auto-expire if more important recordings come along. The disk
> > will
> > be technically full, but should never run into a problem of being
> > too full,
> > since the
> > programs recorded live will expire to make more room.
>
> Yup.
>
> > I think maybe there should be an option for how much liveTV to keep
> > on
> > disk, either
> > as a number of hours or as an amount of free space to keep (and when
> > to
> > delete liveTV
> > vs when to delete commanded recordings).
>
> I don't see how that's any different than just autoexpiring things,
> though.
> As long as the backend is running and the user has not individually
> disabled
> autoexpire for every recorded program, the disk will never be
> completely
> full.
>
> Isaac
Sounds to me like maybe this isn't a dedicated Myth box and/or he
doesn't have a separate disk/partition for Myth recordings. In which
case, I say either bump up the amount of free space for Myth to honor,
or get another disk.
-JAC
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