<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Ronald Frazier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron@ronfrazier.net" target="_blank">ron@ronfrazier.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Michael T. Dean<br>
<<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> You're better off with<br>
>> the current system and telling it to only keep live tv for 1 day.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Keep it for 1 day or 10 billion... The difference is irrelevant. (Granted,<br>
> we only allow you to specify a value between 1 and 7 days, so you're<br>
> unlikely to keep it 10 billion days.)<br>
<br>
I was just talking for his sanity. If it absolutely nags at him to<br>
have his disk "full" then 1 day will help with that.<br>
<br>
And there certainly are reasons why it's useful not to have myth fill<br>
up drives. For instance, when I want to copy over a 50GB bluray rip to<br>
my mythbox, and the samba transfer happens at a faster rate than myth<br>
cleans up with the slow-delete option. My solution to that is to just<br>
bump up the amount of free space myth leaves. That solves the problem,<br>
at the expense of myth not being able to use that extra space if it<br>
REALLY needs it. I don't let that worry me too much, because 50GB<br>
isn't much on a 3TB drive.<br>
<br>
It's also handy to get rid of live TV as fast as possible for the sake<br>
of knowing how much disk is free. When you've got a ton of live tv<br>
sitting around, it's hard to know just how much space really is left<br>
on your drive. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just look at the<br>
size of the LiveTV storage group folder, but unfortunately that<br>
contains not just liveTV, but actual recordings too*** (both scheduled<br>
recordings where it uses an in-use tuner, and LiveTV where you decide<br>
to record it). You can pull that info from the web interface, but it's<br>
not so handy for accessing from monitoring/alert scripts.<br>
<br>
<br>
*** Speaking of which, is there a good way to clean that up...to find<br>
all recordings that are stored in the LiveTV storage group and move<br>
them to another storage group, so that LiveTV truly only contains live<br>
tv?<br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Ron Frazier<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm not sure I understand. Why do you want to waste your time manually managing free space? <br class=""><br clear="all">
<div>Thanks,<br><br>Thomas Mashos</div></div></div>