[mythtv-users] Live TV files not cleaned up

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/14/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 5/14/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >> Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>
> >>> From the email post there was a comment about changing the Watch
> >>> Recordings filter to allow me to see and delete the Live TV files like
> >>> normal recordings. I'm looking around in my frontend setup as well as
> >>> in mythtv-setup but I cannot find this filter. do you know where it
> >>> might be?
> >> I think you are missing the point. Why would you want to delete the live
> >> files? The system will do it for you, according to rules you set up, and
> >> if you want empty space on the drive for some reason you can specify
> >> precisely how much.
> >>
> >
> > No, but maybe you are. As I stated at the outset this is a new and
> > possibly temporary storage drive. I'm trying to keep track of what's
> > on the partitions and why.
> >
> > My backend doesn't have storage. Over the last 2 years I've used a
> > remote machine with a large disk as an NFS data server for everyone in
> > the house. It had a 300GB partition for Myth storage. I woke up this
> > morning to find the whole server had gone down and won't reboot. Since
> > the family wants to record today and I cannot fix that machine in an
> > hour I'm going to set up a USB drive as temporary storage for Myth and
> > wanted to know how it's being used.
>
> Well whatever works for you. I was just trying to save you some possibly
> needless time. I still don't see the connection between "wanting to know
> how it's being used" and "needing to delete".
>
> But I certainly meant no offense.
> _______________________________________________

None take. Hope it didn't sound like I was snapping back. It wasn't my
intention.