I have to say I aggree fully, I often go out of town leaving my
mythbox, and If I dont watch mythweb religiously, the backend runs out
of hd space and things explode. It'd be real nice if the backend
considered the average usage/hour and calculated an estimate to
determine if I was going to run out of space in the next 14 days
(length of listings). <br>
<br>
Cheers!<br>
Justin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dawson, Guy</b> <<a href="mailto:Guy.Dawson@eu.sony.com">Guy.Dawson@eu.sony.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just to add my two pence worth...<br><br>Would there be a way of predicting disk space exhaustion. The system knows<br>what you've asked it to record, should be able to estimate the amount of<br>space required. Obviously it could not easily go beyond the available
<br>listing (although some shows are pretty uniform in their broadcast<br>patterns), but it might be useful if one was going to be away from the<br>machine for some time (holidays etc).<br><br>I mention this as it has happened to us!
<br><br>Guy Dawson<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org
</a>]<br>Sent: 20 March 2006 13:01<br>To: Discussion about mythtv<br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Enhancement idea: Warning in OSD when diskis<br>getting full<br><br><br>I believe the best way to do it is using cron, because it would be easy
<br>to use any running monitor (mrtg, manually check, nagios, etc...) and<br>display on frontends.<br><br>On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:53 +1000, David Whyte wrote:<br>> I was thinking today that a possible enhancement to mythTV would be an
<br>> OSD message that intermittently pops up on all frontends during<br>> playback to indicate that the recording disk space is getting low.<br>><br>> I use a reliable technique to monitor my disk usage (as I always
<br>> manage to fill the drives, even when I add more space) but sometimes I<br>> do forget to check my MRTG charts to check there is still space.<br>><br>> This OSD message method would be particularly useful to indicate to
<br>> the non-techie users in my family that they should go and remove their<br>> old recordings.<br>><br>> I imagine a cron job could currently be employed to do this using<br>> mythnotify (those messages go to all frontends that are playing back,
<br>> right??), however, a proper implementation with a configurable setting<br>> would be very sweet (IMHO of course).<br>><br>> Any thoughts?<br>><br>> Whytey - who can't code C++ for anything!<br>> _______________________________________________
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