[mythtv-users] LiveTV auto recording? Harddrive filling up.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/08/2006 04:16 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Noah Markon wrote:
>   
>> my local NBC runs a digital weather channel, today one block went from
>> 2pm to 6pm. What would happen if some one happened to leave that
>> channel on for 4 hours? Or lets say there was a football game being
>> broadcast in HD, those are long broadcasts that can quickly fill up
>> your hard drive..
>>   
>>     
> Like any program, whether it be weather, a long movie, or a sports even, 
> it would record it for 4 hours and it would be expired after it was done 
> if needed. 
>
> Again, Myth *never* expires anything you don't let it so if you don't 
> want it to expire something, don't set it expirable.  Otherwise, if 
> you're running out of space, more space is generally the right answer.
>   

Put another way, if you don't have the space to record and you don't 
want things deleted, don't record or get some more space...

Mike