[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.26 records live TV without being told to do so

[Thomas Mashos]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >> You're better off with
> >> the current system and telling it to only keep live tv for 1 day.
> >
> >
> > Keep it for 1 day or 10 billion...  The difference is irrelevant.
>  (Granted,
> > we only allow you to specify a value between 1 and 7 days, so you're
> > unlikely to keep it 10 billion days.)
>
> I was just talking for his sanity. If it absolutely nags at him to
> have his disk "full" then 1 day will help with that.
>
> And there certainly are reasons why it's useful not to have myth fill
> up drives. For instance, when I want to copy over a 50GB bluray rip to
> my mythbox, and the samba transfer happens at a faster rate than myth
> cleans up with the slow-delete option. My solution to that is to just
> bump up the amount of free space myth leaves. That solves the problem,
> at the expense of myth not being able to use that extra space if it
> REALLY needs it. I don't let that worry me too much, because 50GB
> isn't much on a 3TB drive.
>
> It's also handy to get rid of live TV as fast as possible for the sake
> of knowing how much disk is free. When you've got a ton of live tv
> sitting around, it's hard to know just how much space really is left
> on your drive. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just look at the
> size of the LiveTV storage group folder, but unfortunately that
> contains not just liveTV, but actual recordings too*** (both scheduled
> recordings where it uses an in-use tuner, and LiveTV where you decide
> to record it). You can pull that info from the web interface, but it's
> not so handy for accessing from monitoring/alert scripts.
>
>
> *** Speaking of which, is there a good way to clean that up...to find
> all recordings that are stored in the LiveTV storage group and move
> them to another storage group, so that LiveTV truly only contains live
> tv?
>
> --
> Ron Frazier
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I'm not sure I understand. Why do you want to waste your time manually
managing free space?

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos
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