[mythtv-users] Auto-expire extra space setting and slow deletes

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:33:38 Tom Dexter wrote:

> I'm trying to get an idea of what extra space setting I should use
> that, in theory, would allow a "full" system to continue without
> problems. I guess part of that depends on the actual speed of slow
> deletes.  I don't believe I've ever read exactly what that is, if
> someone knows offhand.

I think the answer is zero. A Myth system should expire programs properly in 
order to make room for what it needs.

I think the free space option is for folks who need a certain amount of free 
space for reasons other than the MythTV system using that partition.

I could be wrong, but that's how I understand it. If I'm wrong I'd obviously 
like to know about it.

Windows users seem to always want to have large amounts of free space on their 
drives, for some reason, probably the fact that Windows will run slow(er) if 
the drives start to get full.

I figure I bought that drive space to be used, not to sit there doing nothing. 
The same applies to RAM.

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