[mythtv-users] deleted recording via filesystem - how to re-syncdatabase?

[William]

> I'm running mythtv-0.18.1 on Gentoo Linux.
> 
> Right now, recordings go to a wimpy 40 GB partition.  This 
> partition filled up, causing "mysterious" mythtv behavior---I 
> was unable to delete recordings through the frontend.  So I 
> went to the filesystem and did a "rm *.nuv" in my video directory.

There is a tool in the contribs folder which will let you resync your
database to the files actually in your recordings folder.


 
> Other questions: I thought that mythtv by default had some 
> kind of auto-expire enabled?  It appears that this is not the case.

By default the free space is set to zero. Increase your free space setting
to 2 gb or more to be safe.


> 
> I have a TB server in the basement.  I'd rather not run 
> mythtv on the server, but would like to record to the 
> fileserver via NFS. Based totally on secondhand knowledge, 
> I've heard that recording to NFS can be problematic... is this true?
> 

No experience there, sorry.