[mythtv-users] UPDATED: Bash/MySQL script for copying and/or deleting mythfrontend profiles

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/12/2010 04:14 PM, Matt Beadon wrote:
> I'm interested in the delete hostname function since I happen to have 
> a few leftover invalid entries in my DB from changing my hostname 
> without doing it the "mythtv way".

Let me just mention that if the old settings associated with old 
hostnames were actually a problem, MythTV would include a mechanism for 
getting rid of them.  As it is, keeping them in place wastes about 8kiB 
of storage space on your hard drive--maybe 16kiB at most, depending on a 
few factors.

That's not megabytes or gigabytes...  We're talking less than 16384 
bytes.  And, in truth--because of the way file systems work--that's 
probably space that was already wasted (as empty, but allocated, space) 
due to the file system's block size.

Mike