[mythtv-users] Deleting old recordings when storage fills up

[Nick]

On 5/9/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I imagine that there is a setting for this somewhere. My wife
> wanted a movie recorded that didn't make it due to the allocated disk
> space being used up. I thought that Myth was just going to delete
> older recordings by default to make room but it didn't.
> 
>    Where would I configure this sort of operation? I looked in
> mythtv-setup but I didn't see it. Is it there or elsewhere?

When you setup recordings, you can specify whether they can be 'for
the chop' in the future if disk space is running out, usually the
earliest recording is deleted first.

Nick