[mythtv-users] When does MythTV check minimum free space?

[Peter Watkins]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:41:23AM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/16/2011 11:06 PM, Peter Watkins wrote:

> > I'm working on my script to re-balance expirable recordings in storage
> > groups that have multiple storage directories
> 
> Note that you can move recordings to any Storage Group directory--even 
> across Storage Group boundaries (i.e. from "Default" to "Archive") 
> without needing to change anything and without causing any problems at all.

That's good to know.

> > (http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2011-January/307647.html).
> > It would be very handy if I could just move files from one directory
> > to another, and I do have the minimum free space set high enough that
> > there's virtually always enough room -- but only if MythTV doesn't see
> > the short term decrease in free space and decide to autoexpire
> > something right away.

> MythTV will only ever expire recordings when recordings are in 
> progress--and then only on the file systems to which it's recording.  

Awesome, thanks for confirming that.

-Peter