[mythtv-users] deleting files

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 16:11:37 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 11/05/2013 10:17 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>
>> Greetings Mythizens, Am I correct in assuming that files that I have
>> deleted through the front end will be deleted by the back end first
>> when the 750 Gb partition fills up? (before files not deleted in the
>> front end) I am using a combined FE/BE 0.27 fixes within a Ubuntu12.04
>> lts desktop.
>
>
> Short Live TV recordings (<2min) are automatically deleted "immediately," as
> created (to get rid of garbage caused by channel surfing).  Other than that,
> MythTV tries to keep recordings around under the "unused space is wasted
> space" ideal.
>
> When you delete a recording, it will be placed into the Deleted recording
> group.  By default, shows that are deleted to the Deleted recording group
> will be removed from the file system "soon" (allowing you a short period
> during which to change your mind).  However, you may tell MythTV to keep
> those Deleted recordings for any number of days from 1 to 365, or "forever"
> (by specifying -1).
>
> Then, when a file system fills up *and* MythTV is recording a new show to
> that file system, it will start to expire old recordings.  First to be
> expired are Live TV recordings.  After those are all gone, recordings in the
> Deleted recording group will be expired (even if they are newer than the
> "Time to retain deleted recordings (days)" setting).  Once all Deleted
> recordings are gone, recordings that are not Deleted are expired.  If you've
> enabled the "Watched before unwatched" setting ("If enabled, programs that
> have been marked as watched will be expired before programs that have not
> been watched."), then any recordings (on that file system) that are marked
> as Watched will be deleted before any recording that's not marked as
> Watched, regardless of auto-expiration priority.  Note, also, that you can
> specify the Auto-Expire method to choose the rules by which the order for
> expiration will be chosen.
>
> So, it's critical to remember that only those recordings on the file system
> in use are eligible for expiration, so if you have multiple file systems and
> your recordings are not well balanced  across file systems (in terms of
> space usage and Deleted/not-Deleted and Watched/not-Watched and various
> Auto-Expire priorities), you could lose some recording that's more important
> to you than others that aren't expired.
>
> So, in the end, if you care about the order things are removed, you should
> manually remove recordings to make room on all your file systems for new
> recordings rather than rely on MythTV to try to guess the right order.  You
> may go into the System Status screen in mythfrontend and select Auto-Expire
> Order and see the "priority" order for expiration.  Then, simply select to
> delete the recordings you care least about (using MENU, by default "M").
>
> Mike
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thanks Michael, reading the list ans watching my one and only
filesystem's free space reduce to the low 20's(%) made me realize that
I better do something.


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