[mythtv] how to get "Extra Disk Space" setting?

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Wed Jan 20 00:33:03 UTC 2016


On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 11:09:27 AM Nigel Pearson wrote:
> 
> On 20 Jan 2016, at 10:40 am, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > Got it. Is that value GB (1000 ** 3) or GiB (1024 ** 3)?
> 
> 
> Googled for "MythTV AutoExpireExtraSpace: and looked for some code, and:
> 
> 
> http://www.cuymedia.com/mythtv-jya/mythtv_2programs_2mythfrontend_2globalsettings_8cpp_source.html
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> 00326 static GlobalSpinBox *AutoExpireExtraSpace()
> 00327 {
> 00328     GlobalSpinBox *bs = new GlobalSpinBox("AutoExpireExtraSpace", 0, 200, 1);
> 00329     bs->setLabel(QObject::tr("Extra disk space (GB)"));
> 00330     bs->setHelpText(QObject::tr("Extra disk space (in gigabytes) beyond what "
> 00331                     "MythTV requires that you want to keep free on the "
> 00332                     "recording file systems."));
> 00333     bs->setValue(1);
> 00334     return bs;
> 00335 };

Thanks! Inspired by that I dug a little deeper and it seems autoexpire.cpp uses GiB (1024-based) which makes sense, but I needed to verify that since the UI says GB.

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