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

[Kevin Kuphal]

William wrote:
>>>> you can rid yourself of this concern and just let the 
>>>>         
>> system do it's 
>>     
>>>> job.
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>>> 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 don't set those programs to auto-expire.

Kevin