[mythtv-users] autoexpire started deleting recent shows?

Jos Hoekstra joshoekstra at gmx.net
Fri Oct 26 08:04:41 UTC 2012


Op 26-10-2012 6:52, Ross Boylan schreef:
> On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 08:12 +0100, Stephen Robertson wrote:
>> My understanding is that shows you are delete are actually just marked
>> as such and put to the front of the expire queue rather than being
>> deleted immediately.
>>
>> They are then deleted from disk as required.
>>
>> Though I think that there may be some configurable options in there I
>> think this is the intended default behaviour.
> That would explain what's going on.  But the reported free space on disk
> goes up right after deleting recordings.  The report is from myth; could
> it be cheating and adjusting the report for files that are present but
> that can be deleted?
>
> Of course, I could check with df; I'll have to try next time I delete
> something.
>
> Ross
>

That's what I'm seeing in the mythbuntu theme (on .26, but I guess it's 
the same on .25).
It only takes deleted files into account, auto-expirable non-watched 
recordings are not counted.


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