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

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 02:08, Dag Nygren wrote:
> > Getting more hard drive space is not even the point. If you set it to
> > leave free space, it should honor that request and never lock up. Set
> > it to leave even 1GB free and check for auto-expire every 10 minutes.
> > That way it will expire programs you've told it to expire when it
> > needs more room. I don't understand why this isn't the appropriate
> > action to take.
> >
> > If you set none of your programs to auto-expire and then watch a TV
> > program for 4 hours with no disk space left, you deserve a black screen.
>
> Silly me, I thought I deserved an error message

What?  Error messages?  How uncool.. 

=)

I do agree, it should be handled properly if you manage to actually fill 
things up, even though it really shouldn't ever happen during normal usage 
now that autoexpire's on by default.

Isaac