[mythtv-users] LiveTV auto recording? Harddrive filling up.
Kevin Kuphal
kuphal at dls.net
Mon Mar 6 14:56:55 UTC 2006
Graham Wood wrote:
> On Mon, March 6, 2006 14:44, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
>> Autoexpire will delete it when it is necessary to delete it to make room
>> for other recordings or within X days which is a configurable setting.
>> This has been discussed ad naseum on this list before, during, and after
>> the 0.19 release and there isn't any reason to change the behavior as it
>> works.
>>
> It obviously doesn't work for /everyone/.
>
>
Actually, it does. What the OP doesn't like is the *idea* of a
recording sitting on his hard drive. The space it takes up will be
freed and the auto-expire settings will take care of that. The biggest
problem I've seen with LiveTV is people's perceptions of how it should
work and their, pardon my words, analness about having to account for
every byte on their system and see the exact amount of free space at all
times. I don't care how much free space is on my ReplayTV, I know that
it will record based on the settings I have put in about recorded
programs, guaranteed (non-autoexpire), and non-guaranteed (autoexpire)
programs. Once you understand that Myth will actually manage this space
for you, you can rid yourself of this concern and just let the system do
it's job.
Kevin
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