[mythtv-users] Separate partition for live TV no longer recommended in .19?

Garth Benedict shrkbait at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 15:04:29 UTC 2006


Excellent to know, thanks.  After browsing through the new setup pages I saw
the option had gone away so I hoped it was the case.  Will stuff a couple
movies in there and symlink them!

On 2/18/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/18/2006 12:12 AM, Garth Benedict wrote:
> > Have had my myth box running for a couple years back.  Then it was
> > recommended that the life TV buffer point to a separate 10GB partition
> > or so.  With the new live TV stuff is this going to knock my box
> > over?  Do most people just have the TV buffer in their normal partition?
>
> There's no longer a separate location for LiveTV.  Instead, LiveTV is
> recorded into your recordings directory (RecordFilePrefix), so you can
> decide to keep any or all of the shows you watched in LiveTV.  So, you
> no longer have a choice--your LiveTV "buffer" is in your "normal"
> recordings partition--and you'll probably want to find another use for
> your 10GB LiveTV partition.
>
> Mike
>
>
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