[mythtv-users] LiveTV auto recording? Harddrive filling up.

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 10:02 AM, William wrote:

>>>> you can rid yourself of this concern and just let the
>> system do it's
>>>> job.
>>> As long as you actually have that amount of disk space available.
>>
>> Again, there is a setting to always keep x MB free space on your
>> drive. Use it.
>
> You people are missing the point. Since my system is a mature  
> system the
> hard drive is always full of recordings so anytime someone watches  
> live tv I
> lose a recording I wanted to keep. Its not a matter of how much  
> free space
> is on the drive. My son often puts on the music channel for 10-12  
> hours/day
> this routinely deletes 5-8 recordings each time. The file is 20 
> +gigs. I want
> the system to never save live tv which should be an option.
>
So set what you want to keep to not auto-expire, or off them to DVD  
or an external HDD.

The system will not delete a program if you do not allow it, just  
tell it in the right way.