[mythtv-users] Fast delete watched recordings

[John Pilkington]

On 15/04/16 14:48, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 15/04/16 03:55, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>>
>> I'd rather have watched recordings auto delete after a period of time
>> (not based on disk usage),
>> much like manually deleted recordings. Filling my hard drive with junk
>> is a waste.
>>
> It isn't "filling your hard drive with junk". The files are already on
> there, they weren't junk before you watched them, were they?
>
> So long as mythtv can find space to store new recordings, it doesn't
> matter whether the space it uses is already marked empty or it has to
> delete stuff to make room. You aren't using that space for anything
> else, are you? If you are, your storage space is misconfigured.
>

I had an ingrained feeling that persistently writing to almost-full 
disks, with just-in-time deletion, was a quick route to file 
fragmentation. Was that true?  Is it OK now?

John P