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

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Tim Tait wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> Given all the negative opinions about the new LiveTV functionality, I
>> demand equal time.
>>
>> I happen to *like* the new way of doing things. Think of it as a
>> browser cache for TV watching that auto-expires and gives you
>> complete control over how much space is used.
>>
>> I don't hear people complaining about how much disk space their
>> browser cache takes up, it's just the way a browser works.
>>
>>
> I can set a indepedant quota on my browser cache that is has  
> nothing to
> do with total or free disk space... can I do that with the live TV  
> storage?
>
> What happens if the channel has no programming breaks - say a closed
> ciruit baby monitor? The wife puts it on then forgets about it... Will
> the Live TV buffer fill the entire disk then crash? Can it autoexpire
> the currently watched live tv program?


I think the question is what do you want this "free space" for ?? If  
it is something other than MythTV then you can specify exactly how  
much space is to be left open for other apps. If you want the space  
for MythTV recordings then you have no problem because Myth will auto- 
expire whatever it needs to in order to make requested recordings.

That leave only the possibility that you do not want the space for  
Myth or for other apps, in which case you just want free space for  
the sake of free space, in which case just create a partition and  
don't tell any application about it.