[mythtv-users] Please explain

[Joseph A. Caputo]

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